"Paul Friedrich August Renner (9 August 1878 – 25 April 1956) was a German typeface designer. In 1927, he designed the Futura typeface, which became one ...
of the most successful and most-used types of the 20th century.
Renner was born in Wernigerode, and died in Hödingen.
He had a strict Protestant upbringing, being educated in a 19th-century Gymnasium. He was brought up to have a sense of leadership, duty and responsibility. He disliked abstract art and many forms of modern culture, such as jazz, cinema, and dancing. But equally, he admired the functionalist strain in modernism. Thus, Renner can be seen as a bridge between the traditional (19th century) and the modern (20th century). He attempted to fuse the Gothic and the roman typefaces." - (en.wikipedia.org 14.01.2022)
