High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In typography, Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1927 by Paul Renner. It is based on geometric shapes that became representative of visual elements of the Bauhaus design style of 1919–1933. Commissioned by the Bauer Type Foundry, in reaction to Ludwig & Mayer`s seminal Erbar of 1922, Futura was commercially released in 1936.