Adrian Frutiger
Swiss typeface designer (1928–2015) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Adrian Johann Frutiger[1] (Swiss Standard German: [ˈaːdriaːn ˈjoːhan ˈfruːtɪɡər]; 24 May 1928 – 10 September 2015) was a Swiss typeface designer who influenced the direction of type design in the second half of the 20th century. His career spanned the hot metal, phototypesetting and digital typesetting eras. Until his death, he lived in Bremgarten bei Bern.[2][3][4]
Adrian Frutiger | |
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Born | (1928-05-24)24 May 1928 Unterseen, Switzerland |
Died | 10 September 2015(2015-09-10) (aged 87) Bremgarten bei Bern, Switzerland |
Alma mater | Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich |
Occupation | Typographer & designer |
Notable work | Univers, Frutiger and Avenir |
Spouses | Paulette Flückiger
(m. 1952; died 1954)Simone Bickel (m. 1955) |
Children | 3 |
Frutiger's most famous designs, Univers, Frutiger and Avenir, are landmark sans-serif families spanning the three main genres of sans-serif typefaces: neogrotesque, humanist and geometric.[5] Univers was notable for being one of the first sans-serif faces to form a consistent but wide-ranging family, across a range of widths and weights.[6] Frutiger described creating sans-serif types as his "main life's work,"[7] partially due to the difficulty in designing them compared to serif fonts.[7]