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Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

Lefty online magazine: issue 10, May 2016 to issue 17, November 2016

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Paul RENNER<br />

1876-1956<br />

Typeface<br />

FUTURA<br />

Paul Renner, like Jan Tschichold, wanted types that suited the modern<br />

age instead of being revivals from an earlier one. In this, his views were<br />

similar to those of the Bauhaus movement, whose ideals he shared and<br />

influenced without ever being a member.<br />

He established the Meisterschule für Deutschlands Buchdrucher<br />

(Advanced School of German Book-printing) in Munich and recruited<br />

fellow type designers Georg Trump and Jan Tschichold to teach there.<br />

Tschichold was removed from his post and interned by the Nazis for<br />

‘subversive typography’ in 1933. Renner himself was dismissed under<br />

similar circumstances that same year.<br />

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His best known typeface, Futura, is the archetypal geometric sans serif.<br />

The original design had a lower-case of experimental characters but<br />

these were all abandoned before its release by Bauer in 1927. It has<br />

proved the most popular of its type, eclipsing the earlier Erbar, and still<br />

retains its popularity today.<br />

Futura is the main font used in <strong>Sheep</strong> in the Road<br />

mid-June 2016

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