Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger is best known a type designer. His early work was disregarded by the masses. He also, creates the type font 'Univers' which is the type we are using right now in class. 1928 is when his life began. He, of course, is from Switzerland. He has created many type fonts but he came from a humble beginning working as an apprentice for a printer. Soon after that he went to school in Zurich at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts. He moved pretty quickly through out his career. Therefore, he sprinted to Paris shortly after school where he worked with traditional typefaces at a type foundry. Moving forward in his career he had started making all sorts of books; such as, Type, Sign, Symbol (1980) was his first.  He has created multiple typefaces they are found in many foundries where people are using and appreciating his work. 

Like I mentioned before his most common type used is 'Univers'. It is his type that we are studying and working with. It is unbelievable how much work his has put in this one typeface. There are many categories within ‘Univers’ and to think that he has made many more typefaces is unbelievable. The weights and variations are what make the Univers grid different when compared to others. The other variations that are in the other type families are sorted by the use of numbers rather then names. Yet, the unique Univers family uses both letter suffixes and numbers. It is these differences that make Univers unique when compared with other typefaces and type families.