France de nos jours by Charles Carlut Germaine Brée
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Jul 19th, 2025. Artwork published in
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Futura and its planar, stencil-like display companion Futura Black are less of a formally harmonized pair than, say, Scala and Scala Sans. Despite this fact – or rather because of it? – they have been used together quite a bit.
The third-edition cover of France de nos jours (“Contemporary France”) from 1968 is another such example. Here, the parts of Futura Black’s letterforms alternate between red and blue, the French national colors. The book by literary scholars Germaine Brée (1907–2001) and Charles Carlut (1911–2004) was first published in 1957.
