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Avenir is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988 and released by Linotype GmbH, now a subsidiary of Monotype Corporation. The word avenir is French for "future". The font takes inspiration from the early geometric sans-serif typefaces Erbar (1922), designed by Jakob Erbar, and Futura (1927), designed by Paul Renner. Frutiger intended Avenir to be a more organic, humanist interpretation of these highly geometric types. While similarities can be seen with Futura, the twostory lowercase a is more like Erbar, and also recalls Frutiger’s earlier namesake typeface, Frutiger. .
Avenir was originally released in 1988 with three weights, each with a roman and oblique version. Between 2004–2007, Frutiger, together with Linotype's inhouse type designer Akira Kobayashi, reworked the Avenir family to address on-screen display issues. The result was titled Avenir Next. The initial release of the typeface family was increased to 24 fonts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Avenir_(typeface)#Avenir_Next
V Adrian Frutiger (born May 24, 1928 in Unterseen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland) is a typeface designer who influenced the direction of digital typography in the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st. He is best known for creating the Univers and Frutiger typefaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Frutiger
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The word avenir is French for "future"
is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988 Between 2004â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2007, Frutiger, together with Linotype's in-house type designer Akira Kobayashi, reworked the Avenir family to address on-screen display issues. The result was titled Avenir Next.
The font takes inspiration from the early geometric sans-serif typefaces Erbar and Futura
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Avenir’s uppercase “M” vertex (the point where two strokes are joined) lies on the baseline (all characters lie on this line; descenders extend below this line
Avenir’s lowercase “k” has a diagonal stroke that attaches to its stem Avenir’s lowercase “a’” has a bowl that continues horizontally at the top
Avenir was originally released in 1988 with three weights, each with a roman and oblique version, all using Frutigerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two-digit weight and width convention for names. The typeface family was later expanded to six weights, each with a roman and oblique version. Together with Akira Kobayashi, Frutiger completely reworked the Avenir family in 2004. The result is Avenir Next. The original Avenir family is made up of designs with gradual weight changes in order to satisfy the needs of specific text applications. While the book and light weights have similar stroke widths, the book weight is well suited for body text, whereas the light was designed for captions and subhead text. Dwell magazine switched to Avenir during a 2007 rebrand. Key Bank adopted Avenir for advertising and in-bank signage. Japan Airlines, Banrisul, Scottish Water, Susquehanna International Group and Red Lion Hotels use Avenir for corporate branding. Avenir is employed on signage at Dallas Fort Worth and Hong Kong international airports. The city of Amsterdam adopted Avenir as its corporate typeface in 2003. The Girl Scouts of America created a modified version of Avenir for its 2010 rebrand. LG Electronics uses Avenir extensively in branding, advertising and hardware such as cell phone keypads.
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