Futura font family

Overview

Kabel and Futura are birds of a feather, and both fonts seem to have been fledged between 1927 and 1930. Kabel was designed by Rudolph Koch for Klingspor, while Futura was designed by Paul Renner for Bauer. Although it started life with some very eccentric letters, particularly 'a' and 'g', the lower-case alphabet of Futura is now a shade less eccentric and more polished. As a result of this and its wider base, Futura has become the better known and more popular of the two families. The appealing spikiness of both fonts, however, makes for clean-looking headlines and text as easy to read as any sans serif face can be. By the way, if you think Futura looks like typefaces named Intertype and Spartan, you're right. At different times, different type foundries have marketed the same font under those names.

	Description
File name	Futurab.ttf Futura.ttf Futurao.ttf
Styles & Weights	Futura Bold Futura Medium Futura Oblique
Designers	Paul Renner, 1993, (1928)
Copyright	Typeface © 1992 Fundicion Tipografica Neufville, S.A., Data © 1992 URW. © 1992 Type Solutions, Inc. Portions © 1992 Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.
Font vendor	URW Type Foundry
Script Tags	N/A
Code pages	869 IBM Greek 437 US
Fixed pitch	False

Licensing and redistribution info

• Font redistribution FAQ for Windows
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Style & weight examples

Futura Bold

Futura Medium

Futura Oblique