The Futura Condensed font is a condensed version of the original Futura font family. Some of her notable works where Futura is featured are “Untitled (Your body is a battleground)", "You Are Not Yourself" and "I shop, Therefore I Am". They rejected modern type styles like Futura, which went on to become popular throughout the world, influenced by the Bauhaus and the English Arts and Crafts Movements. It’s the favorite typeface of directors Wes Anderson and Stanley Kubrick and has been the main advertising typeface of Volkswagen since the 1960s. Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Paul Renner and released in 1927. Futura 1 has the larger range of weights with some unusual versions like stencil and shadowed designs, while Futura No. For now, just Google “typewolf” followed by the name of a font. The name Bukra itself is a phonetic representation of one way to express "tomorrow" or "in the future" in some Arabic cultures.

The design of Futura avoids the decorative, eliminating nonessential elements, but makes subtle departures from pure geometric designs that allow the letterforms to seem balanced. She layers white text, set in Futura Bold Oblique, on a red background against black and white found photography from mass media sources. Roman typography, which included Futura, became the new standard due to its superior legibility over blackletter typography.[20]. Fonts, Foundries, Designer and Fontlists. (Some releases may be re-drawings or upgraded versions of earlier digital releases.)

The 2013 film Gravity and 2014 films Interstellar and Gone Girl also use Futura on their theatrical release posters. Der Glaube an das Zählen und Messen verführt in allen Künsten zu den gröbsten Fehlern. Crockett Johnson used Futura for the lettering of his Barnaby comic strip, which started running in April 1942 in the newspaper PM. Even the lowercase ‘t’ was redrawn as an asymmetrical design – like many old style typefaces.

[53] More recently Futura has been the basis of IKEA Sans and Opel Sans, fonts designed (for IKEA and Opel, respectively) by Robin Nicholas. Steile Futura was Paul Renner's attempt to create a typeface that would be closer to the nineteenth century sans serifs than to the geometric model. URW and Berthold have released digitisations, URW's under the name of "Topic", its name in original release in some non-German speaking countries. 2 has, amongst other differences, a conventional 'j' in all the non-condensed weights apart from demi-bold, but no italics except in some bold weights.

In 2012 the newly formed Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club use Futura on their logo and club documentation. Paul Renner (type designer, painter, author and teacher) sketched the original drawings and based them loosely on the simple forms of circle, triangle and square. Designed by Marie-Thérèse Koreman, it is a version of Futura ND published by Bauer Types, S.L.

03/06/2020; 2 minutes to read; In this article Overview. In 1997, the Pittsburgh Steelers (an American football team) switched to rounded numbers on the jersey to match the number font (Futura Condensed) on their helmets.

It is available in Light, Medium, Bold, Black (without oblique) weights, while condensed fonts were made in Bold, Extra Bold, all without obliques. Some were near identical copies as in Spartan and Twentieth Century but others were uniquely different, including Nobel and Kabel. It is based on geometric shapes that became representative of visual elements of the Bauhaus design style of 1919–33. Starts at While the capital letters are very similar to their modern counterparts (some visible differences include capital J's descent below the base line and a slightly higher crossbar on capital A), FuturaRenner uses text figures as opposed to the usual lining figures, and the letter forms of r (which has a distinctive dot-and-line styling), m and n (both of which are box-based and unrounded) are in particular contrast to modern Futura adaptations.

Scangraphic's revival notably includes optical sizes, with a tighter-spaced design (SH) created for headlines and a more spread-out version (SB) for body text sizes. The ParaType fonts added Cyrillic characters.

Metal type fonts could be made differently for each text size, so a variety of metal and phototype versions of Futura exist on which a revival could potentially be based.

The quick brown fox jumps over a Dog. The Boston Celtics' championship banners are also in Futura Condensed.

Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Paul Renner and released in 1927. Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1927 by Paul Renner.

[10][11] It has remained popular since.[5][12].

They determined Fraktur to be the true German type. Conversely, round glyphs (a, g, e,) are more true to the circle.

OpenType features included stylistic alternates, lining figures, proportional figures, old style figures, tabular figures, fractions, standard/discretional ligatures, superscript, small caps. Futura was rebranded in France by Deberny & Peignot as "Europe". Its simple letterforms allow it to be set at surprisingly small sizes with little drop in legibility levels. Futura is an exceptionally versatile typeface. A bold version of the font was used for NBC Sports on-screen graphics from 1989 to 1991, and by CBS Sports from 1992 to 1996. Released in 1932, Futura Display uses more angular strokes, resulting in rectangular letter forms. [47], This version is based on the Futura Black, but designed at the Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1987 by Elvira Slysh.[48].

Futura is also a good choice for space-sensitive environments. Try, buy and download these fonts now! [59][unreliable source?].

League Spartan and Beteckna are descendants of Futura that are licensed as Free Software (Under the SIL OFL and GNU GPL+FE licenses, respectively). As a way to hold on to German identity, the Germans pushed for the use of Blackletter typefaces over Roman. Futura continues to be one of the most popular fonts used on the web.

[50] They have also appeared on a digitisation of Twentieth Century, Monotype's competitor to Futura, a release which allows them to be mixed and matched with the more standard characters and small caps. Renner's biographer Christopher Burke has noted the important role of the Bauer Foundry's manufacturing team in adapting the design for different sizes of text, a feature not seen in digital releases. [a] The uppercase characters present proportions similar to those of classical Roman capitals. Although it started life with some very eccentric letters, particularly 'a' and 'g', the lower-case alphabet of Futura is now a shade less eccentric and more polished.

Renner started to work again on this project in 1951 under the name of Steile Futura (steil in German means "upright" or "steep").

[32], The font family has rounder letters than Futura Display. Released in 1927, Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by German type designer Paul Renner.

Futura is timelessly modern; in 1928 it was striking, tasteful, radical — and today it continues to be a popular typographic choice to express strength, elegance, and conceptual clarity. New BBC typeface Reith designed (in-house) for small screens.

These were dropped from the original metal issue of the type and first offered digitally by Neufville Digital under the Futura ND family;[citation needed] small caps are also available in the URW++ digitisation. They were developed at ParaType (ParaGraph) in 1995 by Vladimir Yefimov.

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Small caps and old style figures are included in 18 fonts. This is also the font used on the covers of the classic Region 2 Doctor Who DVD covers, and was used on the covers of most Star Trek novels published by Pocket Books during the 1980s.

Renner's design rejected the approach of most previous sans-serif designs (now often called grotesques), which were based on the models of signpainting, condensed lettering and nineteenth-century serif typefaces, in favour of simple geometric forms: near-perfect circles, triangles and squares.

First presented by the Bauer Type Foundry in 1928, Futura is commonly considered the major typeface development to come out of the Constructivist orient Zwei Boxkämpfer jagen Eva durch Sylt portez ce vieux Whiskey blond qui fume une pipe aber echt über die Mauer gesprungen und auch smørebrød en ysjes natuurlijk.

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[8][9], Futura was extensively marketed by Bauer and its American distribution arm by brochure as capturing the spirit of modernity, using the German slogan "die Schrift unserer Zeit" ("the typeface of our time") and in English "the typeface of today and tomorrow".

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