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Futura™

from Linotype

Futura™ is a Linotype font family with 22 styles.

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Futura

Futura Light

Futura Light Oblique

Futura Book

Futura Book Oblique

Futura Medium

Futura Medium Oblique

Futura Heavy

Futura Heavy Oblique

Futura Bold

Futura Bold Oblique

Futura Extra Bold

Futura Extra Bold Oblique

Futura Condensed Light

Futura Condensed Light Oblique

Futura Condensed Medium

Futura Condensed Medium Oblique

Futura Condensed Bold

Futura Condensed Bold Oblique

Futura Condensed Extra Bold

Futura Condensed Extra Bold Oblique

Futura Display

Futura Shadowed Extra Bold

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: April 10th, 2002 (Updated: Apr 18th, 06)
Designed by: Paul Renner
Designed when: 1932
Letterform design based on: Futura ND
Contained in Categories: Legible, Sans Serif
Design owned by: BauerTypes
Originally created by: Bauersche Giesserei
MyFonts Keywords: 1920s, 1980s, bauhaus, geometric, legible, lineal, sansserif [suggest]

Futura

First presented by the Bauer Type Foundry in 1928, Futura is commonly considered the major typeface development to come out of the Constructivist orientation of the Bauhaus movement in Germany.

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. The design office at Bauer assisted him in turning these geometric forms into a sturdy, functioning type family, and over time, Renner made changes to make the Futura fonts even more legible.

Futura’s long ascenders and descenders benefit from generous line spacing. The range of weights and styles make it a versatile family. 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.

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