Architype Renner is a geometric sans-serif typeface reproducing the experimental alternate characters of
Paul Renner's 1927–29 typeface
Futura for the Bauer foundry. Renner's original design for Futura shows the influence of
Herbert Bayer's experimental
"Universal" alphabet. The alternate characters Renner proposed for Futura were mostly deleted from the face's character set, resulting in a more conventional, and perhaps more economically successful typeface.
Alternate characters were drawn for lowercase a, g, and r, and for some punctuation, and uppercase characters including German accents. Both lining and
text figures
Text figures (also known as non-lining, lowercase, old style, ranging, hanging, medieval, billing, or antique figures or numerals) are numerals designed with varying heights in a fashion that resembles a typical line of running text, hence the ...
were produced. The Renner Architype typeface is one of a collection of several revivals of early twentieth century typographic experimentation designed by Freda Sack and David Quay of The Foundry.
See also
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Architype Albers
Architype Albers is a modular stencil sans-serif typeface based upon a series of experiments between 1926 and 1931 by Josef Albers (1888–1976), German designer, educator and typographer. The Architype Albers typeface is one of a collection of se ...
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Architype Aubette
The concept of an archetype (; ) appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.
An archetype can be any of the following:
# a statement, pattern of behavior, prototype, "first" form, or a main model that ...
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Architype Bayer
Architype Bayer is a geometric sans-serif typeface based upon the 1927 experimentation of Herbert Bayer. Bayer reacted to the Germanic use of capitalization for all nouns by abandoning uppercase. His new case combined characters based on the Carol ...
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Architype Schwitters
Architype Schwitters is a geometric sans-serif typeface based upon a 1927 phonetic alphabet designed by Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948). The digital revival, shown at right, was produced by Freda Sack and David Quay of The Foundry.
Like many new ex ...
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Architype van der Leck
Architype van der Leck is a geometric sans-serif typeface, based upon the 1941 typeface designed by Bart van der Leck for the Dutch magazine ''Flax,'' a journal of the De Stijl art movement.
The face is geometrically constructed, and based upon a ...
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Architype Van Doesburg
Architype Van Doesburg is a geometric sans-serif typeface based upon a 1919 alphabet designed by Theo van Doesburg, a cofounder of the De Stijl art movement. The digital revival shown at right was produced by Freda Sack and David Quay of The Found ...
References
*Blackwell, Lewis. ''20th Century Type.'' Yale University Press: 2004. .
*Burke, Christopher. ''Paul Renner: The Art of Typography.'' Hypen Press: 1998. .
*Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A. F. Johnson. ''Encyclopædia of Typefaces.'' Blandford Press; 1983. .
*Meggs, Philip. B and McKelvey, Roy. ''Revival of the Fittest: Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces.'' RC Publications; 2002.
*Haley, Allen. ''Type: Hot Designers Make Cool Fonts.'' Rockport Publishers Inc, Gloucester; 1998. {{ISBN, 1-56496-317-9
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Architype 1 types
Geometric sans-serif typefaces
Typefaces with text figures
Typefaces designed by Paul Renner