Futura was designed in 1927 by Paul Renner, a German type designer, and commissioned by the Bauer type foundry. Renner held the very Bauhaus/Howard Roark belief that a typeface shouldn’t necessarily be a revival of a previous design. When designing the face, he eliminated all non-essential elements, a design principle I usually try to follow […]

For Christmas, I would like a tshirt celebrating my favorite typeface.