Metropolis 1920

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Release Year
2011
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Classification
Sans Serif
Original Format
Digital
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1920s, art deco, display, sans serif

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Metropolis comes from the the industrial movement of the 1920′s where skyscrapers where born. “Using a double line technique, I wanted to create my own Art Deco style font that represented this era. The result is a bold, bumptious typeface with a stolidly calm disposition.”

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Last edited by Dave Dawson on March 24, 2012, 08:30am EST

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