Press Gothic Pro’s starting point was Aldo Novarese’s Metropol typeface, released by Nebiolo in 1967 as a competitor to bold condensed gothics like Compacta and Impact. Though Metropol enjoyed a few short months of popularity and use in Italy, Germany and France, the others won the technological outlasting battle by moving on to film type then to computer outlines bundled with mainstream software, while Metropol never made it past the metal state until now we took a look at it in 2005. Just like its inspiration, Press Gothic Pro aimed to be a fresh alternative to big economical poster fonts with clear sans serif forms and an urgent, strong, yet elegant design appeal. In 2024, we turned it into a 10-weight Pan-European family with an expanded glyph set of more than 1420 characters and plenty of typographic bells and whistles.