Adrian Frutiger
Frutiger (pronounced with a hard g) is a series of typefaces named after its designer, Adrian Frutiger. Initially available as a sans serif, it was later expanded to include ornamental and serif typefaces. Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. It was commissioned in 1968 by the newly built Charles de Gaulle International Airport at Roissy, France, which needed a new directional sign system. Instead of using one of his previously designed typefaces like Univers, Frutiger chose to design a new one. The new typeface, originally called Roissy, was completed in 1975 and installed at the airport the same year. 2
“sticks and stones”
DON’T STOP believing.
me & you 3
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Adrian Frutiger
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. Adrian Frutiger was born in Unterseen, Canton of Bern, the son of a weaver. As a boy, he experimented with invented scripts and stylized handwriting in negative reaction to the formal, cursive penmanship then required by Swiss schools. At the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed for four years, as a compositor, to the printer Otto Schaerffli in Interlaken; between 1949 and 1951 he studied under Walter Käch and Alfred Willimann in the Kunstgewerbeschule (school of applied arts) in Zürich, where students studied monumental inscriptions from Roman forum rubbings. At the Kunstgewerbeschule, Frutiger primarily concentrated on calligraphy — a craft favouring the nib and the brush, instead of drafting tools.
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Cupped apex of A
Pointed apex of A
Tail connected to bowl
Tail passed through bowl
Frutiger
Futura
Cupped vertex of M
Pointed vertex of M
M M Inclined top terminal
Cupped top terminal
t
t
Frutiger
Futura
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type family Frutiger LT 45 LightCn Frutiger LT 45 LightCn Frutiger LT 55 Roman Bold 8
Frutiger LT 45 Light
Frutiger CE 56 Roman Italic
Frutiger LT 57 Cn Bold
Frutiger LT 95 Ultra Black 9
Q i
the tail of the capial Q is centered under the figure
square dot over the letter i
apex
CHARACT crossbar
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diagonal serif on the 1
closed 4
1 4
TERISTICS counter
arm
spine
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Frutiger