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       Using the "Adobe Futura" typeface with LaTeX
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                                                  2004-09-28
                                              Walter Schmidt
                                         w.a.schmidt@gmx.net
                                             
Loading of tha macro package futura.sty, i.e.

  \usepackage{futura}
  
makes LaTeX use Adobe Futura (=Linotype FuturaLT) as the
default sans serif font family.

|  Notice that Futura is supported with T1 (european) and
|  TS1 (textcompanion) encoding only, so you should issue
|  the commands
|
|    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
|    \usepackage{textcomp}
|
|  in the document preamble.  The obsolete OT1 encoding,
|  which is still the default with LaTeX, is _not_
|  supported.


Optional Scaling:

The Futura fonts appear larger than many others, when used
with the same moninal size.  The macro package provides an
option to scale the fonts, in order to make blending with
other fonts easier.  For instance,

  \usepackage[scaled=0.9]{futura}

will scale the Futura fonts down to 90% of their nominal
size.  When the value is omitted, i.e.,

  \usepackage[scaled]{futura}
  
a default scale of 0.94 is assumed, which is appropriate in
many cases:



NFSS classification:

family  series  shape(s)
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pfu     m       n, sl     Futura-Book, Futura-BookOblique
pfu     b       n, sl     Futura-Bold, Futura-BoldOblique
pfu     bc      n, sl     Futura-CondensedBold,
                          Futura-CondensedBoldOblique
pfu     l       n, sl     Futura-Light, Futura-LightOblique

Encodings:  T1 (Cork), TS1 (Textcompanion).  The TS1
encoding comprises only those gylphs that belong to the
ISO-Adobe character set, plus the \texteuro.


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