Adrian Frutiger is a
heavily influential designer and very well known for the typefaces he created
in his life. He also played a key role in the movement of typography onto a
digital medium. Some of these type faces that he created included Univers, Frutiger and Avenir. These typefaces are some of the most used and
well known typefaces he had created. He considered his "main life's
work" to be the creation of sans-serif types.
Adrian
Frutiger was born in Unterseen, Swiserland. As a boy his passion for typography
was sparked by his experimentation with stylized handwriting as a way for him
to rebel against his strict penmanship classes. At 16 he began his apprenticeship
The training
of Adrian Frutiger varied from apprenticeships, attendance of Swiss design
schools,concentrating in calligraphy, and studying under designers such as Walter
Käch, Karl Schmid and Alfred Willimann
When
creating Univers, Adrian Frutiger envisioned a simple easy to read font that
also had a large font family that had the potential to be used in a variety of
settings. Univers was highly influential in his creation of other fonts including
Serifa and Glypha. Adrian Frutiger died recently on September 10th
in Bremgarten bei Bern, Switzerland
Univers is unique because it was one of the first fonts that also had a font family of similar fonts for designers to work with. The Univers grid shown below shows the font family and the variations between them.
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