Adrian Frutiger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAdrian Frutiger
Swiss typeface designer (1928-2015)
Date of Birth: 24-May-1928
Place of Birth: Unterseen, canton of Bern, Switzerland
Date of Death: 10-Sep-2015
Profession: type designer, artist, non-fiction writer
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Adrian Frutiger
- Adrian Johann Frutiger (Swiss German pronunciation: ['frut?g?r]; 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.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.
- 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.
- Frutiger described creating sans-serif types as his "main life's work," partially due to the difficulty in designing them compared to serif fonts.
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