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    Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Paul Renner and released in 1927. It was designed as a contribution on the New Frankfurt-project...
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    German typeface designer, author, and founder of the Master School for Germany's Printers in Munich. In 1927, he designed the Futura typeface, which became...
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    geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Sol Hess for Lanston Monotype in 1937. It was created as a competitor to the successful Futura typeface for Monotype's...
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    geometric style of sans-serif typeface developed in the 1920s that took the circle as a basis, such as Erbar and Futura. Frutiger intended Avenir to be...
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  • Futura, a defunct British paperback publisher, now part of Little, Brown Book Group. Gibson Futura, an electric guitar Futura (typeface), a typeface designed...
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    respectively on Universal Typeface (unreleased at the time but revived digitally as Architype Bayer) and Erbar (c. 1925). In 1927 Futura, by Paul Renner, was...
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    Century Gothic (category Monotype typefaces)
    Twentieth Century, a copy of Bauer's Futura, to match the widths of ITC Avant Garde Gothic. It is an exclusively digital typeface that has never been manufactured...
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    A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display. Most typefaces include...
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  • foundry's Futura typeface, Peignot encouraged a new, geometric sans-serif type in competition. Frutiger disliked the regimentation of Futura, and persuaded...
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    Rockwell is a slab serif typeface designed by the Monotype Corporation and released in 1934. The project was supervised by Monotype's engineering manager...
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