The lowercase has tall ascenders, which rise above the cap line, and uses nearly-circular, single-storey 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 primarily based about 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 layout. Futura has an appearance of efficiency and forwardness.
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