Adrian Frutiger was a Swiss type designer. He was born in 1928 in interlaken, Switzerland. By age 16 he was working as a printer's apprentice near his home town.His main goal was to create a sans serif typeface as clean as universe. After his education, this is when he decided to design and few of them became very significant, and was the main reason why he earned his name as a type designer.
Throughout his years he produced a number of books, these books are:
Type, Sign- Signs and Symbols: Their Design and Meaning
- The International Type Book
- Geometry of Feelings
- The Development of Western Type Carved in Wood Plates
- Forms and Counter forms
- Life Cycle
- The Univers
- Symbols and Signs: Explorations
More about Univers:Univers represents the first modular type family. It is designed across an extended family of weights and widths, including 21 faces, coded by number, and five weights available in four widths.
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