Metropolis
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A variable version of Chris Simpson’s geometric sans, in roman and italic.

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Type in the box, then drag the weight or press Animate weight.

Harbour Street, 7:42 on a Tuesday. The first tram rattles past the fish market while Jo buys a dozen quince tarts and a box of figs from a van outside. The bakery on the corner is already out of rye, and a man in a yellow jacket sweeps the steps of the old post office.
Style
45px
1.1
0em
Alignment
OpenType
Colours

Weights

The nine named instances. Click a row to load it into the type tester.

OpenType features

Single-storey a

A salad of avocado and a banana

ss01 swaps in the single-storey a.

Tabular figures

Rent$1,200.00
Groceries$348.17
Transit$91.40
Total$1,639.57

With tnum on, every figure takes the same width, and so do + − × =.

Dollar and cent

Full bar

$49 ¢99

From weight 700, the bars on $ and ¢ split into two stubs so the counters stay open.

Italic

11.75°

Roman Italic

Roman and italic are separate variable fonts.

Glyphs

Hover or focus a glyph to see it large. Click to copy it.

270 languages

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Metropolis is in the public domain under the Unlicense. The release has OTF for desktop apps and WOFF2 for the web, with one variable file per style.

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styles.css 
@font-face {
  font-family: "Metropolis";
  src: url("Metropolis[wght].woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
}

body { font-family: Metropolis, sans-serif; }
h1   { font-weight: 850; }