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Curated by
Stephen Coles

Helvetica and Univers
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A key difference between Helvetica and Univers is revealed in the way Adrian Frutiger attempted to simplify letterforms by using a minimum of strokes and stroke variation in each glyph. This distinction is most apparent in the letters below.

Discover other Helvetica contemporaries and ancestors in this list.

Read more about Frutiger’s work in ”The Complete Works of Adrian Frutiger”.

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