Frutiger

Frutiger is a linear sans font that was designed in 1975 by Adrian Frutiger and released by the type foundry D. Stempel.

Features

The proportions were taken from about Frutiger's Univers earlier. The x-height is relatively high, the cap height less than the height of the lowercase letters with ascenders. The typeface appears open, with big punches ( indoors ) in lowercase. The letters C, G, S, a, c, e, s have strongly flattened Rundungsausläufe with vertical terminations. The line width of the vertical is slightly greater than the horizontal.

History

Concorde

Already developed by Adrian Frutiger and André Gürtler Font Concorde (1959 published by Sofratype ) had all the characteristics of Frutiger. Only the letters M, Q and G had other forms.

Roissy and Frutiger

1970 Adrian Frutiger designed from the Concorde Roissy font for signage at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. Frutiger is equipped with additional cuts print version of Roissy.

Frutiger Next

The font Frutiger, was based on an idea by Adrian Frutiger out revised. Under the leadership of the then artistic director of Linotype Reinhard Haus Erik Faulhaber created the fundamental revision Frutiger Next. It appeared in 2001 at Linotype and was in Faulhaber's book Frutiger. The conversion of a classic font. documented. Six weights were redesigned. Cursive writing now has its own forms of the letters a, e, f, g, q, that is ß as a ligature of s and s recognizable and derived from the combination of letters & Et.

Frutiger Serif

Adrian Frutiger roman typeface design Meridien from the 1950s was expanded by Akira Kobayashi in collaboration with Frutiger Frutiger Serif Font Family to 20 sections ( five weights in two race lengths, each upright and italic) and published in 2008 to Frutiger's 80th birthday. Particular emphasis was placed on the harmony with Frutiger Next.

Neue Frutiger

2009, a revision of the original design by Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi was released, which is closer to the original Frutiger Frutiger Next. The font family consists of the ten lines of different thickness Ultra Light, Thin, Light, Book, Regular, Medium, Bold, Heavy, Black, Extra Black Italic and related cuts.

2013, the Neue Frutiger was published in 1450, which implements the requirements of DIN 1450 (standard on accessible reading). To the clear distinction of all the characters from each other the digit and the digit 1 0 received a round dot in the center, a serif and the lowercase letter l a bow at the bottom.

Variants

• Concorde there were in regular and bold.
• Roissy is available in normal, low-fat, bold and italic.
• Frutiger appeared over the years in seven weights, four of them in italics and in five narrow. Univers as the sections were designated numbers: 25, 35, 45, 55, 65, 75 and 95 ( upright); 46, 56, 66 and 76 (in italics); 47, 57, 67, 77 and 87 (narrow).

Frutiger Next are available in six weights ( light, normal, low-fat, fat, extra fat and ultra fat), all of which are also in italics and narrow available. The number system is no longer used here.

The Neue Frutiger is available in ten weights, each also in italics.

Use

Frutiger is often used for signage (eg for airports Paris, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul), but is also very common to find in print, especially with short texts in small sizes. Since 2003, the ASTRA Frutiger font standard and ASTRA - Frutiger highway are used in Switzerland for traffic signs. The course book ( a list of schedules ) of Switzerland and all publications of the city of Lucerne set in Frutiger. The ÖBB use Frutiger Next as a corporate font for printed materials, signage and labels. In addition, the euro banknotes are labeled with Frutiger.

Identical and similar fonts

The font Humanist 777 Bitstream corresponds Frutiger and comes with the graphics program CorelDRAW.

The font Myriad Adobe was inspired by Frutiger, but has some noticeable differences, such as round dots and curved shapes with the capital letters B and D. The Italic Myriad flowed again in Frutiger Next.

Siemens Sans, the typeface of Siemens AG, is also inspired by Frutiger and small caps and old style figures have been added to. It is part of a font family that includes the slab serif Slab Siemens and the Siemens serif Antiqua.

The Berlin public transport use since 1992, developed by MetaDesign font FF Transit, which was interpolated between the narrow typefaces Frutiger 57 and Frutiger 67. The dots in the letters i, j, umlauts and punctuation were round, and in the italic letters received some other forms, so that they can be used inside the passenger information system.

For the design magazine form an intermediate section was interpolated 1995 Frutiger 45 and Frutiger 55.

For the Alte Pinakothek in Munich 1998 three narrow Frutiger variants were revised.

The of the software giant Microsoft with the Windows Vista operating system newly introduced standard font Segoe UI is almost identical with Frutiger Next.