Adrian Frutiger is a type designer from Switzerland. His
career started at the young age of sixteen, working as a printer’s apprentice. Here
he also learned woodcutting, engraving, and calligraphy. After studying at the
Zurich school of Arts and Crafts, he was recruited by Charles Peignot to create typefaces for a new
phototypesetting process. He was also requested to design a font family with
different weights. It was at this time in his career where he started creating
the typeface, Univers. The descriptions he used for each twenty-one variations was
revolutionary for that time. Frutiger also started the trend of a higher x-height
with the typeface Univers. It was a change that was not seen during that
period. Throughout his career he has worked with many different
forms of creating type including, hot metal, phototype setting, and digital
typesetting. Frutiger is a designer known for influencing digital typography.
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