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Futura Typeface: Paul Renner

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Best known for creating the Futura typeface, Paul Renner was a well known 20th century German graphic designer, typographer and type designer. He was born on August 9, 1878 as Paul Friedrich August Renner in Wernigerode, Prussia. Because of his father being and evangelical theologian, Renner had a strict upbringing. Because of the strict upbringing he was raised to develop a German sense of leadership, responsibility and duty. Renner studied Greek and Latin for nine years and after that he opted to study arts at several academies.
After years of studying Renner created and became the director of Master School for Germany 's Printers. He took notice of abstract art form and soon built up repulsion for some of the forms in modern culture including
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