Now I'm thinking that it's meta

That would be some version of Meta

> [funy but Trebuchet and Meta have some similar characteristics, the > curved l, open loop g... ]

[funy but Trebuchet and Meta have some similar characteristics, the > curved l, open loop g... ]

...except that Meta was designed in 1985 and published in 1990. Trebuchet came way later, so it�s obvious what influenced what.

Real Simple magazine commissioned Meta Light in 2 weights from FontBureau. Christian Schwartz took those outlines and made them into Meta Hairline, Thin and Light. Not as easy as we thought: just a line without any modulation (as in the Hairline weight) tends to be just cute, without much character. Works for Helvetica, but was a bitch to do for Meta.

thanks everybody for your input and Mr. Spiekermann for the inside scoop. This was my first time on this forum and I certainly wasn't expecting Mr. Spiekermann to see this but I'm trying to stop stealing sheep. Love meta... very cool font.....

>>BTW What's everyone's obsession with anorexic type?

It's the MTV-thing, probably. Pictures are everything, text just gets in the way. So, if you use real skinny type, you're left with even less to read, which is GOOD (if you're under the age of 35, haha).