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Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger

I first experienced the power of type to make the whole intellectual world readable with the same letters in the days of metal. This awakened in me the urge to develop the best possible legibility. The time soon came when texts were no longer set in metal types but by means of a beam of light. The task of adapting the typefaces of the old masters from relief type to flat film was my best school. When we came to the “Grotesk” style of sanserif, however, I had my own ideas which led to the Univers family. Technological progress was rapid. Electronic transfer of images brought the stepping, followed by my feelings for form. But today, with curve programs and laser exposure, it seems to me that the way through the desert has been completed.
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader. In the course of my professional life I have aquired knowledge and manual skill. To pass on what I had learned and achieved to the next generation became a necessity.

Adrian Frutiger
Linotype 1985
19 styles from $42.99
Adrian Frutiger
Linotype 1957
27 styles from $42.99
Adrian Frutiger and Nadine Chahine
Linotype 1988
18 styles from $42.99
Adrian Frutiger, Akira Kobayashi, Nadine Chahine, Anuthin Wongsunkakon, Monotype.Design Studio, Yanek Iontef, Akaki Razmadze and Pria Ravichandran
Linotype 2009
95 styles from $29
Adrian Frutiger and Linotype Design Studio
Linotype 2000
21 styles from $53.99
Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi
Linotype 2003
39 styles from $97.99
Adrian Frutiger
Bitstream
22 styles from $29.99
Adrian Frutiger, Akira Kobayashi, Nadine Chahine, Anuthin Wongsunkakon, Monotype.Design Studio, Yanek Iontef, Toshi Omagari, Aleksei Chekulaev, Akaki Razmadze and Elena Papassissa
Linotype 2003
64 styles from $49
Adrian Frutiger, Nadine Chahine and Linotype Design Studio
Linotype 1997
78 styles from $49.99
Adrian Frutiger
Bitstream
14 styles from $29.99
Adrian Frutiger
Linotype 1957
19 styles from $55.99
Adrian Frutiger and Nadine Chahine
Linotype 1998
11 styles from $29.99
Adrian Frutiger and Linotype Design Studio
Linotype 2010
2 styles from $247.99
Adrian Frutiger
Linotype 1968
1 style from $39.99
Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi
Linotype 2013
8 styles from $71.99
Adrian Frutiger
Linotype 1957
6 styles from $29.99
Adrian Frutiger
Linotype 1986
8 styles from $29.99
Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi
Linotype 2003
2 styles from $328.99
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