Frutiger
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Frutiger (pronounced with a hard g) is a series of families of fonts named after its designer, Adrian Frutiger. Initially available as Frutiger, it was later expanded to include ornamental fonts.
Frutiger
Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. It was commissioned in 1968 by the newly built Charles De Gaulle International Airport at Roissy, France, which needed a new directional sign system. Instead of using one of his previously designed typefaces like Univers, Frutiger chose to design a new one. The new typeface, originally called Roissy, was completed in 1975 and installed at the airport the same year. Frutiger's goal was to create a sans serif typeface with the rationality and cleanliness of Univers, but with the organic and proportional aspects of Gill Sans. The result is that Frutiger is a distinctive and legible typeface. The letter properties were suited to the needs of Charles De Gaulle – modern appearance and legibility at various angles, sizes, and distances. Ascenders and descenders are very prominent, and apertures are wide to easily distinguish letters from each other. The Frutiger family was released publicly in 1976, by the Stempel type foundry in conjunction with Linotype. Frutiger's simple and legible, yet warm and casual character has made it popular today in advertising and small print. Some major uses of Frutiger are in the corporate identity of Raytheon, the National Health Service in Britain, the British Royal Navy, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and on road signs in Switzerland. The typeface has also been used across the public transport network in Oslo, Norway since the 1980s. It is currently the best-selling typeface of the Linotype foundry.[citation needed] Frutiger was also produced by Bitstream under the name 'Humanist 777'. Frutiger NextThe Frutiger family was updated in 1997 for signage at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. The new version, named Frutiger Next, changes a number of details and adds a "true" italic style in place of the oblique roman of the original. Frutiger Next was commercially available in 2000 under Linotype. It features 6 font weights, with bonus Ultra Light weight for the OpenType version. Fonts names are no longer numbered with the Frutiger system. Frutiger Black was renamed to Frutiger Next Heavy, and Frutiger Ultra Black was changed to Frutiger Next Black. Condensed fonts no longer include italic variants. In addition to italic type, characters such as cent sign, copyright symbol, ß, Ω, integral, are redesigned. It also includes small cap letters and old style figures, but fonts with Cyrillic letters have not been produced. Frutiger Stones (1998)It is a family of casual fonts consists of Regular, Positive, Negative fonts. Frutiger Stones Positive is Regular without the stone outline, while Negative is a reverse fill of the Regular. Frutiger Symbols (1998)It is a family of ornamental fonts. Naming convention follows Frutiger Stones. Frutiger Capitalis (2005)It is a family of casual fonts consists of Regular, Outline, Signs fonts. Frutiger Capitalis Outline is the outline version of Frutiger Capitalis Regular. Frutiger Capitalis contains only ornamental glyphs of religions, hand signs, astrological signs. Frutiger Arabic (2007)It is a font family designed by Lebanese designer Nadine Chahine as a companion to the Latin typeface Frutiger and with the consulting of Adrian Frutiger. It is based on the Kufi style but incorporates aspects of Ruqaa and Naskh in the letter form designs. Similar typesAs with all successful designs, Frutiger has been much imitated. Adobe's Myriad and Microsoft's Segoe UI are two prominent typefaces whose similarities to Frutiger have aroused controversy. However, in an interview, Adam Frutiger commended the work of Myriad's designer, Roger Slimbach.[1] ReferencesBibliography
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