Is there such a thing? The font design itself is in the public domain.

ofnuts, I can't understand your question.

In short, I'm looking for free fonts in the Futura family.

I just got some futura fonts from Google, http://www.1001fonts.com/futura-fonts.html

Close but no cigar... I'm looking for the one true Futura font and usual derivatives (Condensed, Black, Bold...)

I guess I just don't understand exactly what you are looking for.
http://www.1001freefonts.com/ventura.font

These fonts: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/futura/

Is this one?

Anything here that might work for you?

http://fonts.goldenweb.it/index_file/l/ ... fault.html

that is as close as I can get with the url, do a futura search when you get there

One of them Thx.

Wonderful. Just what the doctor ordered.

Do you want some more ofnuts?

The whole set... Hmm. Thx.

yup, as many free ones I could find.

Got licensing info on those?

I think it requires you to pay around $20 bucks to use it. But its weird since the fonts are dated 30' but it had a debut by 2000?

How can you be sure those are free/open source and a lot of fonts look a like so whats the major difference?

Licensing of fonts is a very tricky subject. In some countries, the design and name are protected, and in others only a specific implementation is (so you can do an exact clone and get away with it, and in some countries you can even sell it under the original name).

I do too, and thanks Molly.

here is an example of a complain: google for "github dmca 2014-08-27 Monotype-Imaging"
(open source =! free ware) can be true - sometimes open source is very expensive aswell