Futura Specimen Book

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Contrary to popular thinking, the Futura® typeface was neither conceived at Germany’s Bauhaus nor decreed as the quintessence of the design school’s teaching.Paul Renner, Futura’s designer, had no Bauhaus affiliation, although his original sketches embodied the ideologies of the Bauhaus movement. His work was translated into fonts of metal type by The Bauer Type Foundry of Frankfurt, which made considerable changes to his Futura. The end result was a melding of Renner’s philosophy with proven typeface design precepts. Futura is an exceptionally versatile typeface. Its bold and condensed variants are especially powerful display designs. Futura is also a good choice for space-sensitive environments. Its simple letterforms allow it to be set at surprisingly small sizes with little drop in legibility levels. Futura also works well for short blocks of text copy, captions and pull-quotes.


TYPE FAMILY TYPE FAMILY TYPE FAMILY TYPE FAMILY TYPE FAMILY Tyep Family \ 10 pt

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Light

Book

Medium

Heavy

Bold


TYPE FAMILY TYPE FAMILY TYPE FAMILY TYPE FAMILY TYPE FAMILY Light Italic

Book Italic

Medium Italic

Heavy Italic

Bold Italic

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz


FUTURA

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QRW pointed apexes with deep overshoot

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Aligned Center

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One of the distinct characteristics that separates Futura from any other sans-serif typefaces is how it was designed.

Every stem is a rectangle or a straight line. Futura consists mostly of the basic geometric shapes giving the typeface a very clean and crisp sans-serif typeface.


Type Glyphs

Futura supports up to 78 different language such as Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, Polish, Kurdish (Latin), Romanian, Dutch, Hungarian, Kazakh, Luxembourgian, and Icelandic in Latin and other scripts.

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Size

8 pt

Every stem is a rectangle or a straight line

12 pt

Every stem is a rectangle or a straight line

18 pt

Every stem is a rectangle or a straigh

24 pt

Every stem is a rectangle or

30 pt

Every stem is a rectang

36 pt

Every stem is a rec

48 pt

Every stem is a

55 pt

Every stem is


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Futura


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