Without any citations to back this up, I would feel comfortable saying perhaps that Renner and the Bauhaus were both inspired by a series of concepts that were making their way through European design at the time. Is there a written source (e.g., by Paul Renner himself, or maybe an interview with Paul Renner from a 1928–1933 German design periodical) that would justify this claim? I am not sure how influenced Renner was by the Bauhaus as an institution. Paul Renner’s Futura was clearly inspired by the concepts of the Bauhaus (see experimental letters) but came out no earlier than 1927. Great article, Indra! I just have three questions… Geometric, constructivist typefaces based on the design ideas of the Bauhaus:Īlso check out this FontList at FontShop. Typefaces like the ones used by the Bauhaus. So, what typefaces should we choose to be more imaginative? The typeface ITC Bauhaus is a design from 1975 by Ed Benguiat and Victor Caruso inspired by the ideas of Bayer, Schmidt et al, but it is not a revival of any Bauhaus design. Then, however, it was accepted as the “type of our time”.

The radical constructivist designs we now immediately connect with “Bauhaus”, however, were only carried out in drafts - drawings and lettering - never in a typeface.

Others are Venus and Ideal Grotesk, later recycled in Monotype Grotesque.īut the typographic ideas of the Bauhaus, above all Herbert Bayer and Joost Schmidt, went further. This drawing by Herbert Bayer wasn’t produced as a typeface.Ī typeface in this vein often found in their later materials is Breite halbfette Grotesk by Schelter & Giesecke, recently revived as FF Bau by Christian Schwartz.

These are the most common typefaces in the database, but there are many more.

Bauhaus font