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Episode 1 / Futura

In this first episode we talk about Futura, that most versatile of modernist typefaces and its designer Paul Renner, the OG Anti-fa.

Episode 1 / Futura

Anitra tells Jason why the Nazis hated Latin typefaces. We argue about the merits of mathematical proportions and Jason unfairly compares Type Designer Mathew Carter to a character from Game of Thrones.

Websites and books referenced in this episode:

Biography of Renner: https://mantex.co.uk/paul-renner-the-art-of-typography/

University of Kansas Bio of Renner (that everyone else shamelessly ripped off): https://people.ku.edu/~delange/paulrenner.html

About the women of the Bauhaus: http://www.designcurial.com/news/the-women-of-the-bauhaus-7370218

Getty Research Institute: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/bauhaus/new_artist/history/principles_curriculum/

Just My Type / Simon Garfield

Elements of Typographic Style / Robert Bringhurst

Download a transcript of this episode set in Futura

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