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Paul Renner and Futura: The Effects of Culture, Technology, and Social Continuity on the Design of Type for Printing
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Paperback
from Vdm Verlag Dr Mueller E K (February 28, 2008)
9783836459549 | details & prices | 111 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 0.25 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $64.00
About: This book reviews the circumstances that led to what Paul Renner called "the inflation of historicism," places his response to that problem in the context of the Weimar Republic, details how the German attributes with which he began the project were displaced from the typeface that emerged in 1927, demonstrates that Futura belongs to a new category of serif-less roman fonts rooted in Arts and Crafts lettering, and considers why the specifically German aspects of the project have gone unrecognized for over seventy years.
About: This book reviews the circumstances that led to what Paul Renner called "the inflation of historicism," places his response to that problem in the context of the Weimar Republic, details how the German attributes with which he began the project were displaced from the typeface that emerged in 1927, demonstrates that Futura belongs to a new category of serif-less roman fonts rooted in Arts and Crafts lettering, and considers why the specifically German aspects of the project have gone unrecognized for over seventy years.