While not involved in the Bauhaus, he was influenced by it and by the same cultural and artistic ideas that gave rise to the Bauhaus. Futura and the Bauhaus?īoth Paul Renner and Futura are often associated with the Bauhaus movement, but there is some debate about the interplay between them. In the process of bringing Renner’s initial drawings to metal type, the Bauer designers made adjustments that brought his original concepts for Futura closer in line with traditional typographic letterforms. It is extremely effective as a display font, but can also be pleasant to read in longer form as a text face. One of Paul Renner’s original drawings for the typeface that would become Futuraĭesigned by Paul Renner between 19, Futura was released commercially in 1927 by the Bauer Type Foundry in Frankfurt, Germany.
