Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces public-space Told with warmth

Told with warmth

and wiped out entire towns

have been wiped off the map by wars and fanaticism

sondern auch das Thema als solches substantiell weiter gedacht

Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces public-space Told with warmthThe Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger decisively influenced the international creation of typefaces after 1950. His Univers typeface and the machine readable font OCR B are milestones, as is his type for the Paris airports, which evolved into the Frutiger typeface. All set new standards for signage types. In all, he created some fifty types, including Ondine, Mridien, Avenir, and Vectora. Based on conversations with Frutiger himself and on extensive