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Fact
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If you have ever been to Paris, France, you must have taken the
subway, called the "Metro", at least once. This picturesque
underground train bears the most amazing Art Nouveau stations,
created by the genius Hector Guimard, and this font was used
to display station names. Of course, this font is not the original,
as the lettering was hand painted for every panel, and there
were variations on the same style. I tried to keep with the original,
made after sketches I took on location about 15 years ago.
Mitc
PS
: Since the Guimard stations were overhauled in the late 90's it
is very unfortunate that the original brush hand-made lettering has
been replaced by an analogous font. Young engineers probably never
realized that replacinh a hand-made lettering by a font made it a whole
lot less "Art Nouveau". Actually, from art, it just became yet another
industrial product. Pity when renovation means a loss of original
quality...
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Technical requirements
Powerful PC with Windows XP, Vista or more recent, or the most recent versions of NT.
A high resolution printer (300 dpi minimum, 600 dpi and over preferable).
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These typefaces are
hinted and kerned, and suited for any kind of printing work.
They have been used by famous European printers to set text,
using typesetting equipment.
Fontmenu.com offers hundreds of original typefaces and font families
for Windows XP and more recent organized by categories and names.See full character map, download
free fonts samples, purchase online and get the fonts immediately. Fonts are optimized for :
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Windows XP
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Windows Vista a.k.a. Lomghorn (and OpenType Glyph Substitution technology)
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Dowload a free working sample of the font. It will help you play with it before you buy,
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Métropolitain
family
of three fonts
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$14.95 only instant download
for Windows
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Métropolitain
Métropolitain
Hollow
Métropolitain
Étroit
3 fonts
Price : $14.95, including TrueType and ATM PostScript Type 1
format.
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