Metropolis : typeface specimen booklet issued by D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Continental Typefounders Association Inc., New York, USA : nd [c.1929] : title page

            The American booklet for the German typeface Metropolis that was designed by Willy Schwerdtner in 1928/9; the title page of this publication stating 1929. Produced by D. Stempel AG Schriftgiesserei of Frankfurt am Main it was imported and sold in the US by their agents the Continental Typefounders Association Inc. of New York. 

The typeface is very evocative of the 'deco' period and of 'modernity' seen here with the graphics suggesting skyscrapers and Fritz Lang's film of the same name issued in 1927. The booklet is stich-bound, very tightly and so to minimise time and pressure on the scanner some of the pages are slightly off-centred. The booklet was printed in Germany and contains details of Continental Typefounders Association Inc and its agents. There are then examples of the typeface in use, mostly in mocked-up adverts and settings, as well as seven pages of specimens of the typeface including the Bold version as well as those with long ascenders.

Taken on: May 12, 2023

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