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Tempo has a fun mix of Futura's teutonic sternness and R. Hunter Middleton's love of lively quirks. Middleton worked in a backward leaning f, a curvaceous style for v, w, and g, and big open apertures for e and s that resemble American advertising letters of the
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With Tempo Heavy roman it is necessary to specify the alternative 'squared' characters for A, M, N, W; with these caps. in their normal pointed form the type has the look of one that has strayed from advertising display into
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were available. Digital-period type designer James Puckett describes it as "bonkers; really four typefaces that just got lumped together for the sake of marketing." Middleton also designed a
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Tempo Alternate was designed to look more like Futura than the original release of Tempo. They failed pretty miserably; only a blind man could confuse this for Futura Bold.
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Tempo was expanded to a sprawling family released over the 1930s and 40s, that (as of 2020) has not been fully digitised. It included the shadow-form display typeface
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Tempo's italic, with its 'feet' at the bottom of the letters, was an influence on that of the popular 2002 geometric sans-serif family
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Stellar and Tempo, released in 1929 and 1930, respectively...both have the Erbar a
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design, closely copying German typefaces in this style, above all
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sans-serif
typeface
R. Hunter Middleton
Ludlow Typograph
geometric sans-serif
Futura
true italic
serifs
swash capitals
Umbra
Erbar
alternative characters
slab-serif
Karnak
Neutraface
Christian Schwartz
Typographic Milestones
ISBN
978-0-471-28894-7
Schwartz, Christian
"Back with a flourish #5. Christian Schwartz on swaggering swashes"
"The Ludlow: Typographic Influence, 1931–1962"
Devroye, Luc
"R. Hunter Middleton"
Hutt, Allen
"Currently working on an accurate revival of R. Hunter Middleton's typeface Tempo"
Dribbble
"Tempo Heavy Italic"
"Tempo Alternate"

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