Image by Makalu on Pixabay · Pixabay License
Adrian Frutiger
Sign in to saveAlso known as Adrian Johann Frutiger
Swiss typeface designer (1928-2015)
OverviewAI-generated
Adrian Frutiger was a Swiss type designer, typographer, artist, and non-fiction writer. Born in Unterseen in 1928, he worked in Arcueil and was affiliated with Deberny & Peignot. He was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and spoke German and French.
His notable works include the typefaces Frutiger, Univers, Avenir, and OCR-B. He also authored twenty works, including Geometry of Feelings and Signos, símbolos, marcas, señales. Frutiger died in Bremgarten bei Bern in 2015.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Open Library. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 20
Top works
- Geometry of Feelings
- Signos, símbolos, marcas, señales
- Signos, sÃmbolos, marcas, señales
- Type Sign Symbol
- Symbole
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 74
- Total plays
- 370
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Adrian+Frutiger">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 36,228x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,186x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- International Physical Activity Questionnaire: 12-Country Reliability and Validity
· 2003 · cited 17,592x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1928-05-24 ) 24 May 1928, Unterseen , Switzerland
- Died
- 10 September 2015 (2015-09-10) (aged 87), Bremgarten bei Bern , Switzerland
- Alma mater
- Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich
- Occupations
- Typographer , designer
- Notable work
- Univers , Frutiger and Avenir
- Spouses
- Paulette Flückiger ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1952 ; died 1954 ) Simone Bickel ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1955 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Adrian
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Unterseen
- Place of death
- Bremgarten bei Bern
- Occupation
- graphic artist
- Employer
- Deberny & Peignot
- Languages spoken
- French
- Image
- Adrian Frutiger in Amsterdam.jpg
- Work location
- Arcueil
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1928-05-24
- Commons category
- Adrian Frutiger
- date of death
- 2015-09-10
- member of
- Alliance Graphique Internationale
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Oberhofen am Thunersee
via Wikidata · CC0
~20 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Adrian Johann Frutiger ( 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.
Frutiger's most famous designs, Univers, Frutiger and Avenir, are landmark sans-serif families spanning the three main genres of sans-serif typefaces: neo-grotesque, 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adrian Frutiger” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.