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Adrian Frutiger
1928 - present

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He is... One of the most prominent typeface designers ever.

And was born... March 4, 198 in Interlaken, Switzerland.

Known for... The famoustypefaces Univers and the self-titled Frutiger.

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As a child, Frutiger experimented with “a variety of self-invented scripts and stylized handwriting in reactionto the formal cursive required at the time in Swiss schools.” (quoted from Wikipedia.com) At the age of 16, he worked as a printer’s apprentice near his home town; and later moved to Zurich to study atthe Zurich School of Ar ts and Crafts. What would jumpstar t his career came in 1951, when he produced a school project about the history of Western lettering that caught the attention of CharlesPeignot, president of the type foundr y Deberny & Peignot. After graduating, he was offered a position there, and thus relocated to Paris, aiding the foundr y in translating classic typefaces used withtraditional printing methods to newer phototypesetting technologies. (In other words, he supervised the adaptation of many D&P classic faces to the computerized photo-composition system Lumitype —known as ‘Photon” in Nor th America.) Around the same time he started producing his own typefaces... Then in 1960 he left D&P to open his own Atlier (ar tist studio) just outside Paris.

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Frutiger created quite an extensive collection of typeface families. Most are listed here in chronological order. The significant ones are covered in more detail on the followingslide.

Apollo (196)

Icone (1980)

President (195)

Serifa (1967)

Breughel (198)

Ondine (1954)

OCR-B (1968)

Versailles (198)

Meridien (1955)

Iridium (1975)

Avenir(1988)

Egyptienne (1956)

Frutiger (1975)

Herculanum (1990)

Univers (1957)

Glypha (1979)

Didot (1991)

(type images from Linotype.com)

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