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The Future is a homage to Futura, Paul Renner’s progressive classic. Working from original production drawings, The Future is a careful observation of Futura’s geometric architecture and avant-garde alternates, articulating Renner’s musings on modernity, abstraction and purity. The Future Mono takes a speculative approach and reimagines Futura as a typewriter font commissioned by Kyota Sugimoto.
- Design
- Kris Sowersby
- Engineering
- Noe Blanco
- Collaborators
- Dave Foster
- Awards
- Best Awards, Design Craft, Silver2023
- Release date
- 2022
- Current version
- 2.006
- Classifications
- The FutureGeometric sans-serif
- The Future MonoMonospaced geometric sans-serif
- Font formats
- OTF DesktopWOFF2 WebTTF App
- Average glyph count
- 629 per Roman style629 per Italic style17,598 total
- Font styles
- 28
- Hinting
- Manual VTT hinting
- Kerning
- Manual kerning34,090 total pairs
Families
The Future
Thin100Thin Italic100Extralight200Extralight Italic200Light300Light Italic300Regular400Italic400Medium500Medium Italic500Bold700Bold Italic700Black900Black Italic900
The Future Mono
Thin100Thin Italic100Extralight200Extralight Italic200Light300Light Italic300Regular400Italic400Medium500Medium Italic500Bold700Bold Italic700Black900Black Italic900