Influence On Other Typefaces
Though Erbar was the first of the new geometric sans-serif faces, the enormous success of Futura fostered the creation of many new geometric sans-serif faces by competing foundries including Kabel, Metro, Vogue, Spartan, Twentieth Century, and Century Gothic among others. Some were near identical copies as in Spartan and Vogue, but others, were uniquely different including Nobel and Kabel.
Typeface designer Adrian Frutiger acknowledges Futura as one of his inspirations for his 1988 typeface Avenir. More recently Futura has been the basis of Ikea Sans and Opel Sans, fonts designed (for Ikea and Opel, respectively) by Robin Nicholas.
The subway system of the city of Toronto has their own Toronto Subway Font based on Futura.
Tasse is a revival of Steile Futura.
Beteckna is inspired by Futura.
Braggadocio is based on Futura Black.
Fujiyama is a clone of Futura.
The 2000 typeface Gotham is similarly geometric and based on 1920s signage.
Passata is a modernised version of Futura specifically designed to replace Futura as the corporate branding font of Aarhus University.
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