Metropol
Reber R41 · Aldo Novarese · 1967
Aldo Novarese's 1967 display typeface for Nebiolo, drawing on wood type grotesques and Gothic textura in a compact black-weight form built for headlines and advertising.
About
Designed at Nebiolo's Studio Artistico, Metropol sits within Novarese's broader project of modernising historical letterform traditions. Its dense, squared character shares DNA with Eurostile and was aimed squarely at press advertising and newspaper headlines. Novarese described it as a 'textura of our time' — a contemporary rereading of Gothic script proportions filtered through the visual language of mid-century Italian typography.
Classification
A compact, black-weight display type with roots in wood type grotesques and Gothic textura, reinterpreted through Novarese's modernist lens. Its squared, dense forms relate it to Eurostile and the broader Italian geometric display tradition.