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Metrophobic

Designed By

Vernon Adams

1 Style Sans Serif

Letters for
every day.

Metrophobic · Regular

Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.

1 style available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.

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TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

Next stop: Harbor Street

A Clear Hierarchy

Metrophobic · Regular

Headings, labels and running text.

Departures09:00 →

Before You Travel

The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.

Platform 04Ticket Office →

1 Style,
One Family

Every available style is shown below in its own font file.

Regular400

Next stop: Harbor Street

Google commissioned Metrophobic from Vernon Adams, the English type designer who lived in San Clemente, California, and he aimed it at 2 jobs at once: legible in small text and interesting enough for a headline.

The feel is semi geometric.

It has had 2 serious revisions since. In June 2019 it was redrawn and respaced for version 3.100, and in January 2023 version 3.200 added Vietnamese and adjusted the horizontal spacing for easier reading. So the file you get now is better made than the original 2011 release.

1 Regular style only. Use it for a website’s body and headings both, if you can live without bold; otherwise pair it with a heavier sans for titles.

Metrophobic type specimen with letters and figures
Metrophobic · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

575 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
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The Font Files

Download
Metrophobic

1 TTF style with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 41 KB ↓
Version
3.200
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Read The Font License ↗

Install On Your Computer

Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.

Use On A Website

Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.

<link rel="stylesheet"
  href="/fonts/metrophobic/metrophobic.css">

body {
  font-family: 'Metrophobic', sans-serif;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.

Metrophobic Heading · Metrophobic Body

Before You Travel

The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.