Futura vs Super Grotesk
- Futura vs Super Grotesk
- This is a project from my communications design studies at HTW Berlin done in 2010. For typography class I compared two quite similar fonts: Futura by Paul Renner and Super Grotesk by Arno Drescher. As you may know, Super Grotesk is said to be some kind of a rip-off of Futura, extremely often used in the eastern part of Germany (DDR) during the German division from 1949 to 1990, while Futura was one of the most commonly used fonts of the western part (BRD). I compared the details of both fonts with help of some of the most common east–west stereotypes like cars, beverage, or swimwear.The German title “Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Futura zu kopieren” means “Nobody has the intention of copying Futura” and is a reference to Walter Ulbricht's famous phrase “Nobody has the intention of building a wall” [to divide Berlin].Lecturer: Christian Hanke
Description
This is a project from my communications design studies at HTW Berlin done in 2010. For typography class I compared two quite similar fonts: Futura by Paul Renner and Super Grotesk by Anton Drescher. As you may know, Super Grotesk is said to be some kind of a rip-off of Futura, extremely often used in the eastern part of Germany (DDR) during the German division from 1949 to 1990, while Futura was one of the most commonly used fonts of the western part (BRD). I compared the details of both fonts with help of some of the most common east–west stereotypes like cars, beverage, or swimwear.
Fields
Typography, Print Design
Date
2011
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Thanks to our teacher Christian Hanke for his great input, support and motivation.
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