Metro Black No.2

details about the font
Name	Metro Black No.2 [wrong?]
Style	Bold [wrong?]
category	Serifenlose Linear-Antiqua [wrong?]
designer(s)	William Addison Dwiggins [wrong?]
foundry	Mergenthaler [wrong?]
date released	1929 [wrong?]
details about the photo
author	Ndru1987
date	January 18, 2012 – 20:42
place	Willem-van-Vloten-Straße 13, 44263 Dortmund, Deutschland

more information about the font

In 1929 Chauncey Griffith at Mergenthaler commissioned W.A. Dwiggins to design a warmer and less mechanical Geometric Sanserif to compete with Futura. Dwiggins’ best efforts proved that human warmth had little to do with cool geometry; for twelve years, until the introduction of Spartan, Mergenthaler lost ground to Intertype’s licensed version of Futura.