Commercial · Sans serif · Klim Type Foundry
The Future
The Future is a licensed font from Klim Type Foundry: $60 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. The Future is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Kris Sowersby
- Released
- 2022
- Styles
- 14
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- $60 USD (base price for the first font style; each subsequent style is discounted (from the Klim FAQs page)) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
A homage to Paul Renner's Futura drawn from original production drawings, keeping its geometric architecture and avant-garde alternates. The Future Mono reimagines Futura as a typewriter face. 14 styles.
Free alternatives to The Future
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. The Future is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Jost webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Jost.
same classification
A free interpretation of Futura, the same model The Future observes closely; Jost is less faithful to Renner's drawings.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Josefin Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Josefin Sans.
same classification
A geometric sans in the 1920s idiom with Futura-like alternates; lighter and more elegant than The Future.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Outfit webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Outfit.
same classification
A contemporary geometric sans; less historically grounded.
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