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Credits

Designer(s)
Paul Renner
Foundry(ies)
URW++
Release Year
1952, 1995
Country of Origin
Germany
Classification
Sans Serif
Original Format
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Distributor(s)
Ascender Corporation, Fonts.com, MyFonts, FontShop, ITC, URW++
Tags
condensed

Background

Bauer & URW’s name for Steile Futura is Topic. Steile Futura was an attempt by Paul Renner to make a version of Futura more in line with Nineteenth Century grotesks than Twentieth Century geometric sans serifs.

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