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Frutiger 65 font3/30/2024 ![]() Frutiger: "What was important, was total clarity – I would even call it nudity – an absence of any kind of artistic addition.". In designing the typeface's predecessor Roissy, Frutiger's goal had been to create a sans-serif typeface with the rationality and cleanliness of Univers but the organic and proportional aspects of Gill Sans. ![]() ![]() Impressed by the quality of the Roissy airport signage, the typographical director of theMergenthaler Linotype Company approached Frutiger in 1974 to turn it into a typeface for print. The Roissy typeface was completed in 1972. Instead of using one of his previously designed typefaces like Univers, Frutiger chose to design a new one. It is the text version of Frutiger's earlier typeface Roissy, commissioned in 1970/71 by the newly built Charles de Gaulle Airport at Roissy, France, which needed a new directional sign system. New Swiss road signs near Luganouse the typeface Frutigerįrutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. Uppercase: the tail of the capital Q is centered under the figure the uppercase J has a slight hook and there are two versions of the uppercase R, one with a straight tail and one with a curved tail.įigures: monospaced numbers diagonal serif on the 1 closed 4. Wide, open apertures on letters such as a, e and s. Lowercase: square dot over the letter i double-storey a.
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