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'''Adrian Frutiger''' (born 1928) is a Swiss
typographer whose designs include:
* Meridien (1955)
* Egyptienne (1956)
*
Univers (1957), a
Grotesque san serif type
* Serifa (1967)
*
OCR-B (1968)
* Iridium (1975)
*
Frutiger (designed 1975 for
Charles de Gaulle Airport, issued by Linotype in 1976)
* Glypha (1979)
* Icone (1980)
* Breughel (1982)
* Versailles (1982)
His career spans the eras of
hot metal,
phototypesetting, and
digital typesetting.
At 16, he started a four-year apprentiship with a printing firm in
Interlaken,
Switzerland, while studying at the
Zrich School of Arts. One of his projects was a design for a
sans serif typeface—on which he subsequently based Univers.
In 1952, he joined the
type foundry of Deberny and Peignot in
Paris,
France. There he oversaw the transfer of roman types from hot metal to
Lumitype phototypesetting.
In 1955, he designed his first major typeface, Meridien. In 1957, Univers, designed for phototypesetting and hot metal, established his reputation.
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