Renner Architype

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Architype Renner is a geometric san-serif typeface reproducing the experimental alternate characters of Paul Renner's 1927–29 typeface. It is the work of Freda Sack and David Quay, and is available from The Foundry.

Renner Architype is a geometric san-serif typeface reproducing the experimental alternate characters of Paul Renner's 1927–29 typeface Futura for the Bauer foundry. Renner's orignal 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. Ranging, or old style, figures were produced. The Renner Architype typeface is a collection of several revivals of early twentieth century typographic experimentation designed by Freda Sack and David Quay of The Foundry.

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Jaspert, Beny and Johnson. Encyclopedia of Typefaces. Cassell Paperback, London; 2001. ISBN 1-84118-139-2
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Haley, Allen. Type: Hot Designers Make Cool Fonts. Rockport Publishers Inc, Gloucester; 1998. ISBN 1-56496-317-9