It took three years and three designers to develop a Meta Serif®. All through the 90s, Erik Spiekermann made several attempts at designing a counterpart for his groundbreaking FF Meta®. Fans of Meta frequently asked him which serif face would best complement it. He recommended existing fonts, until he realized that he should just buckle down and draw his own serif Meta. True to his principle of collaboration, Spiekermann enlisted the help of accomplished type designers Christian Schwartz and Kris Sowersby.

While it is a typeface that can stand up on its own in a wide range of applications, the extra benefit of FF Meta Serif is its close relationship to its sans serif sister. The two families can be mixed in the same line and one can be used to accentuate the other. Using both on the same page adds variety and meaning to text.

FF Meta Serif is available in four weights: Book, Medium, Bold and Black, each with Italics. All styles include Small Caps, lining and oldstyle figures in proportional and tabular widths, and a range of arrows and other symbols. We highly recommend the OpenType versions (OT and Pro) for easy access to all these glyphs and other features like extra ligatures, case-sensitive punctuation, and support for Eastern European languages (in the Pro version).

Recommended Packages

FF Meta Serif OT Collection

Every style in OpenType format.

FF Meta Serif Pro Collection

OpenType format with support for Baltic, Eastern European and Turkish languages.

FF Meta Serif/Sans OT Complete Suite

Get both serif and sans in this type system which includes FF Meta Serif plus all matching weights of the original FF Meta. Also available in Pro format.

FF Meta Serif/Sans OT Basic Suite

A great starter pack at a great price. Includes Book, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic styles of FF Meta Serif and FF Meta. Also available in Pro format.

Langauage Support

Meta Serif Baltic Book        Meta Serif CE Black        Meta Serif Turkish Medium    Meta Serif Small Caps: Baltic, CE and Turkish