I was recently reading a book on typographic detail and came across some of the alternate characters and experiments for futura. I thought they were really quirky and interesting so wanted to pop them up here for all to enjoy. They can now be seen in the typeface Architype Renner, which includes different characters for the a, g and r as well as characters with international accents. The typeface was put together by Freda Sack and David Quay of The Foundry, one of a number of early 20th century revivals.
The interesting thing about them for me is that they seem so different from the classic futira, and its quite hard to believe they are from the same set. Sure a lot of the structure is similar, but they have a quirkiness about them which differs from the logic and structure of futura. I think they would be great to use in a logo or something.
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Very nice. Just found this site, awesome stuff here! Look forward to future posts.
Thanks for the kind words David.