Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger
Frutiger in 2002
Born(1928-05-24)24 May 1928
Unterseen, Switzerland
Died10 September 2015(2015-09-10) (aged 87)
Bremgarten bei Bern, Switzerland
Alma materKunstgewerbeschule Zürich
Occupation(s)Typographer, designer
Notable workUnivers, Frutiger and Avenir
Spouses
Paulette Flückiger
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(m. 1952; died 1954)​
Simone Bickel
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(m. 1955)​
Children3

Adrian Johann Frutiger[1] (Swiss Standard German: [ˈaːdriaːn ˈjoːhan ˈfruːtɪɡər]; 24 May 1928 – 10 September 2015) was a Swiss typeface designer who influenced the direction of type design in the second half of the 20th century. His career spanned the hot metal, phototypesetting and digital typesetting eras. Until his death, he lived in Bremgarten bei Bern.[2][3][4]

Frutiger's most famous designs, Univers, Frutiger and Avenir, are landmark sans-serif families spanning the three main genres of sans-serif typefaces: neogrotesque, humanist and geometric.[5] Univers was notable for being one of the first sans-serif faces to form a consistent but wide-ranging family, across a range of widths and weights.[6] Frutiger described creating sans-serif types as his "main life's work",[7] partially due to the difficulty in designing them compared to serif fonts.[7]

  1. ^ Fox, Margalit (18 September 2015). "Adrian Frutiger Dies at 87; His Type Designs Show You the Way". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Schweizer Typograf Adrian Frutiger ist tot". Neue Luzerner Zeitung. 12 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  3. ^ Twardoch, Adam. "Adrian Frutiger (24 May 1928 – 12 September 2015)". TypeDrawers. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  4. ^ Spiekermann, Erik (13 September 2015). "Nachruf: Eine Epoche in Buchstaben". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). ISSN 0174-4917. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  5. ^ Fox, Margalit (20 September 2015). "Adrian Frutiger Dies at 87; His Type Designs Show You the Way". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  6. ^ Moran, James (1968). "Stanley Morison" (PDF). Monotype Recorder. 43 (3): 28. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  7. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Reputations: Adrian Frutiger was invoked but never defined (see the help page).