Adrian Frutiger is one of the best known type designers and has produced several of the best known and widely used typefaces today. Adrian was born in 1928 in Interlaken,Switzerland. By age 16, Frutiger was working as a printing apprentice in a town near his home. He studied at Zurich's School of Arts and Crafts and moved to Paris after his education to work at Deberny & Peignot typefoundry. Frutiger helped move classic typefaces being used with traditional print methods into newer phototypesetting print technologies while working at D & P. While working, Frutiger designed typefaces of his own as well, and began to achieve a status of a great type designer through his work. Throughout his career, he produced a number of books as well, some of which are:
-Type, Sign, Symbol (1980)
-Signs & Symbols: Their Design and Meaning (1989)
-The International Type Book (1990)
-The Univers (1999), etc.
Today, Frutiger's typefaces are still available for a number of different foundries. Frutiger recently collaborated to make 'Frutiger Next' & 'Avenir Next,' which have refined forms and true italics. Frutiger created 'Univers' in 1956, and has created a number of other well known typefaces.
Univers is unique because it is the first modular type family and was designed systematically across an extended family of weights and widths. It has a matrix of 21 faces, with 5 weights, 4 widths, including: ultra condensed,condensed,regular, and extended. Univers is considered an alternative to Helvetica and the Univers condensed version can be effectively used to allow for narrow column settings that would not normally be possible without the condensed width. The Univers grid is a chart that documents the different variations of the font based on stroke, weight and kerning.
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