The uppercase characters present proportions similar to those of classical Roman capitals. The lowercase has tall ascenders, which rise above the cap line, and uses nearly-circular, single-story forms for the 'a' and 'g', the former previously more common in handwriting than in printed text. It is based on strokes of near-even weight, which are low in contrast. 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. Although Renner was not associated with the Bauhaus, he shared many of its idioms and believed that a modern typeface should express modern models, rather than be a revival of a previous design. įutura has an appearance of efficiency and forwardness. It was developed as a typeface by the Bauer Type Foundry (Bauersche Gießerei), in competition with Ludwig & Mayer's seminal Erbar typeface of 1926. It is based on geometric shapes, especially the circle, similar in spirit to the Bauhaus design style of the period.

It was designed as a contribution on the New Frankfurt-project. Shaar (Extra Bold, Extra Bold Italic)įutura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Paul Renner and released in 1927. Nisus seems not to like Futura Light.Edwin W. Even now I sometimes get red labels in the Character palette even with all the (Futura Light) fonts used in the styles applied are activated. So I disabled all 'Futura Book' fonts as well. This time, it didn't change upon re-opening the document but in some parts of the text (headers, footers) Futura Light was now substituted by Futura Book. (I didn't change my paragraph and character styles in the Tooldrawer it still said Futura Light.) I had to re-define the paragraph and character styles. As a result, in the Character palette the font was labeled red which means font substitution. In the next step I disabled all 'Futura Medium' fonts in the Font Collection. Deselecting and re-selecting the paragraph and character styles wouldn't change anything. When I opened the document the next time, the font had changed to Futura Medium.

I've defined a paragraph style as well as a character style using Futura Light and applied them to a text. I've had a related problem with Futura in NWP so I'm interested in this topic.

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