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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
- Classification
- Monospaced geometric sans-serif
- Font formats
- OTF DesktopWOFF2 WebTTF App
- OpenType features
- Contextual alternatescalt
- Old-style numeralsonum
- Alt ass01
- Alt square fss02
- Alt g (1)ss03
- Alt g (2)ss04
- Alt g (3)ss05
- Alt square hss06
- Alt square mss07
- Alt square nss08
- Alt square rss09
- Alt dotted rss10
- Alt square uss11
- Alt seriffed 1ss12
- Alt punctuationss13
- Outlined dotsss14
- Half-width spacess15
- Slashed zerozero
- Fractionsfrac
- Superiorssups
- Inferiorssinf
- Ordinalsordn
- Capital formscase
- Glyph count
- 620 per Roman style620 per Italic style8,680 total
- Font styles
- 14
- Hinting
- Manual VTT hinting
- Kerning
- Manual kerning0 pairs per style
| Font name | Pixel size | Point size | File size |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Future Mono Thin | 36 | 24 | 27kb |
| The Future Mono Thin Italic | 36 | 24 | 28kb |
| The Future Mono Extralight | 24 | 16 | 28kb |
| The Future Mono Extralight Italic | 24 | 16 | 29kb |
| The Future Mono Light | 16 | 7 | 28kb |
| The Future Mono Light Italic | 16 | 7 | 29kb |
| The Future Mono Regular | 16 | 7 | 28kb |
| The Future Mono Italic | 16 | 7 | 29kb |
| The Future Mono Medium | 16 | 7 | 29kb |
| The Future Mono Medium Italic | 16 | 7 | 30kb |
| The Future Mono Bold | 16 | 7 | 29kb |
| The Future Mono Bold Italic | 16 | 7 | 30kb |
| The Future Mono Black | 24 | 16 | 29kb |
| The Future Mono Black Italic | 24 | 16 | 29kb |