Jim Parkinson is an American type designer in Oakland, California.
Jim Parkinson at the TYPO SF conference in 2012
Parkinson's drafts of a logo for Esquire
Metro is a sans-serif typeface family created by William Addison Dwiggins and released by the American Mergenthaler Linotype Company from 1929 onwards.
Metrolite and Metroblack No. 2 fonts shown in a Linotype specimen. Both runs of text are cast from the same duplexed matrices which could cast either weight, so the width is identical; the light weight tends to look wider because of the lower stroke width.