Frutiger
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| font | Frutiger |
| category | sans serif linear antiqua |
| Font classification | humanistic |
| Font designer | Adrian Frutiger |
| Type foundry | D. stamp |
| publication | 1975 |
| Republish | Linotype |
| License | commercial $ 499 / € |
| Variations | Frutiger Next |
| Alternative name | Humanist 777 |
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Frutiger [ ˈfʁuːtɪˌgər ] is a sans serif linear antiqua typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1975 and published by the D. Stempel type foundry .
features
The proportions are roughly taken from Frutiger's earlier Univers font . The x-height is relatively high, the capital height is less than the height of the lower case letters with ascenders . The typeface appears open, with large punches (interior spaces) for the lower case letters. The letters C, G, S, a, c, e, s have strongly flattened rounded ends with vertical ends. The line width of the vertical is slightly larger than that of the horizontal. That is why the Frutiger is categorized as dynamic grotesque .
history
Concorde
The Concorde font developed by Adrian Frutiger and André Gürtler (published by Sofratype in 1959 ) already had all the characteristics of Frutiger. Only the letters M, Q and g had other shapes.
Roissy and Frutiger
In 1970 Adrian Frutiger from Concorde designed the Roissy font for signage at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport . Frutiger is the print version of Roissy with additional weights .
Frutiger Next
The Frutiger font was redesigned based on an idea by Adrian Frutiger. Under the leadership of the then artistic director of Linotype Reinhard house created Erik Faulhaber the fundamental revision Frutiger Next . It was published by Linotype in 2001 and was featured in Faulhaber's book Frutiger. The transformation of a typeface classic. well documented. Six weights were redesigned. The italics now have their own forms of the letters a, e, f, g, q, the ß is recognizable as a ligature from ſ and s, and the & is derived from the letter combination Et.
Frute serif
Adrian Frutiger Antiqua -Schriftentwurf Meridien from the 1950s was designed by Akira Kobayashi in collaboration with Frutiger font family for Frutiger Serif with 20 cuts (five weights in two run lengths , each upright and italic) developed and published in 2008. 80th to Frutiger's birthday. Special emphasis was placed on the harmony with Frutiger Next .
New Frutiger
In 2009, a revision of the original design by Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi was published, which is closer to the original Frutiger than Frutiger Next . The font family consists of ten different weights: Ultra Light, Thin, Light, Book, Regular, Medium, Bold, Heavy, Black, Extra Black and the associated italic weights.
In 2013 the Neue Frutiger 1450 was published, which implements the requirements of DIN 1450 (standard for barrier-free reading). To clearly distinguish all characters from one another, the number 0 was given a round point in the middle, the number 1 a serif and the lowercase letter l an arc at the bottom.
variants
- Concorde was available in normal and fat.
- Roissy is available in normal, semi-bold, bold and italic.
- Over the years, Frutiger appeared in seven weights, four of them in italics and five in narrow. As with Univers, the styles were numbered: 25, 35, 45, 55, 65, 75 and 95 (upright); 46, 56, 66 and 76 (italic); 47, 57, 67, 77 and 87 (narrow).
Frutiger Next is available in six weights (light, normal, semi-bold, bold, extra bold and ultra bold), all of which are also available in italics and narrow. The number system is no longer used here.
The Neue Frutiger is available in ten weights, each also in italics.
use
Frutiger in traffic
Frutiger is often used for signage (e.g. for Paris , London , Amsterdam , Singapore , Kuala Lumpur , Seoul airports ), but is also very common in print, especially for short texts in small font sizes. The fonts ASTRA-Frutiger Standard and ASTRA-Frutiger Autobahn , which replaced the SNV font, have been used for road signage in Switzerland since 2003 . The course book (a list of schedules) of Switzerland and all publications of the city of Lucerne are set in Frutiger. The ÖBB use Frutiger Next as a corporate typeface for printed matter, signage and lettering.
Frutiger for institutions
The euro banknotes are labeled with Frutiger. The Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences in St. Augustin (Germany) uses fonts from the Frutiger family, as does the German Fraunhofer Society . The lettering within the university logo uses Frutiger 65 and Frutiger 45. The Association of German Architects BDA uses the Frutiger family as its corporate typeface for some publications - including its own magazine der architekt . The Fernuniversität in Hagen uses the Frutiger font in its written correspondence and in its study letters .
Same and similar fonts
The font Humanist 777 of Bitstream corresponds Frutiger and with the graphics program CorelDRAW delivered.
The Myriad font from Adobe was inspired by Frutiger, but has some noticeable differences, for example round dots and curved shapes in the capital letters B and D. Myriad's italics were again incorporated into Frutiger Next.
Siemens Sans , the corporate font of Siemens AG , is also inspired by Frutiger and has been expanded to include small caps and old- style figures . It is part of a typeface family that includes Egyptienne Siemens Slab and Antiqua Siemens Serif .
The Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe have been using the FF Transit typeface developed by MetaDesign since 1992 , which was interpolated between the narrow typefaces Frutiger 57 and Frutiger 67 . The dots for the letters i, j, umlauts and punctuation marks have been rounded, and in italics some letters have been given different shapes so that they can be used within the passenger information system.
In 1995, an intermediate cut was interpolated from Frutiger 45 and Frutiger 55 for the design magazine form .
The German Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken have the Frutiger VR corporate font in a total of four variants.
In 1998, three narrow Frutiger variants were revised for the Alte Pinakothek in Munich .
The Segoe UI standard font, newly introduced by the Microsoft software group with the Windows Vista operating system, is almost identical to Frutiger Next.
literature
- Erik Faulhaber: Frutiger. The transformation of a typeface classic. Niggli , Sulgen / Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-7212-0520-0 .
Web links
- Frutiger history (100besteschriften.de)
- Adrian Frutiger - Comments on font design. Interview with Erik Spiekermann about TYPO Berlin 1996
- Page about the Neue Frutiger
Individual evidence
- ^ Monotype Introduces Mosaic Platform Enhancements and Neue Frutiger World Typeface for Global Branding; Plan Font Discovery Technology Preview for Adobe MAX ( s ) on October 10, 2018. Retrieved on 19 May of 2019.
- ↑ Neue Frutiger (Linotype)
- ↑ Neue Frutiger 1450: a first text for the new regulation on accessible reading
- ↑ typografie.info: Writings on traffic signs ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Corporate design guidelines of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
- ^ The house font Frutiger - Marketing - Universität - FernUniversität in Hagen. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Design guidelines for the appearance of the German Volksbanks and Raiffeisenbanks. Status November 2012. (PDF file)
