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Europe

Evgeny Grigoriev

Somebody knows something about this typeface? History, author, something else?

Typeface name: Europe (or Capitals Europe?). Geometric (Futura like). France? Greek and latin.
On the example: Théogonie (with illustrations by Braque), publisher: Adrien Maeght, Paris, 1955. Letterpress.

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defiantone

looking at the Latin version.. seems very Futura to me. some of our real type history experts may have more/better info.

Donald H. Tucker

The Latin specimen looks like Futura as it was commonly sold at the end of the metal type era. Compare to the specimen in Jaspert's Type Encyclopedia, 1970:


As for history, author etc, here is what Jaspert said:

Renner's early versions had some significant differences in letter-forms, but that may be more info than you want at this stage.
Don

Evgeny Grigoriev

Peignot also acquired rights to produce a version of Futura, which Deberny & Peignot released in 1930 under the name Europe.
http://www.atypi.org/about-us/whos-who/charles-peignot

thank you all.

Alexandre Dumas...

Exactly, Deberny & Peignot upon the idea of the art director Maximilien Vox acquired rights to produce a version of Futura from Bauer.
They released Europe in 1931 in France and french colonies. It seems the greek variant is specific to Deberny & Peignot as they produce it punchcutting while Bauer use a pantographic process to directly produce Futura.
We wrote a book in french about the history of Futura typeface. ISBN 978-2-9155-4239-4

http://www.editions-norma.com/Livres/Arts-decoratifs-l-Design/Futura-une-gloire-typographique
www.facebook.com/futurastory

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