Futura: grace under pressure
Paul Renner’s quest for “sachlich” created a typeface that is as technically astute as it is elegant
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18 min readJun 17, 2022
Futura was born alongside a rash of German grotesque typefaces that were created in the late 1920s.
These typefaces had their roots in the progressive, modernist zeitgeist of the period. At one point, after some initial…