It is based on Frutiger 57 Condensed, but with widening ascenders and descenders, which are intended to give the eye a better hold than the earlier version did.Ī family of two fonts were made, called ASTRA-Frutiger-Standard/standard and ASTRA-Frutiger-Autobahn/autoroute.įrutiger is often used on pharmaceuticals, for example this insulin vial. This is a variant of Frutiger used by ASTRA (acronym of the Amt für Strassen, the Swiss Federal Road Office) as the new font for traffic signs, replacing VSS in 2003. Unlike most Frutiger variants, Frutiger Linotype features old-style figures as the default numeral style.įrutiger Linotype can be found in Microsoft products featuring Microsoft Reader and in the standalone Microsoft Reader package. It does not include OpenType features or kerning, but it adds support to Latin Extended-B and Greek characters, with Frutiger 55 supporting extra IPA characters and spacing modifier letters. This family consists of Frutiger 55, 56, 65, and 66.
This is a version of the original Frutiger font family licensed to Microsoft. In 2008 it was the fifth best-selling typeface of the Linotype foundry. Frutiger became extremely popular for uses such as corporate and transportation branding. The Frutiger family was released publicly in 1976 by the Stempel type foundry in conjunction with Linotype. Improvements on Roissy included better spacing. Ascenders and descenders are very prominent, and apertures are wide to easily distinguish letters from one another. The letter properties originally suited to the needs of Charles de Gaulle: a modern appearance and legibility at various angles, sizes, and distances. According to Frutiger, "What was important, was total clarity – I would even call it nudity – an absence of any kind of artistic addition." Designing Frutiger as a print version of Roissy, this principle resulted in a distinctive and legible typeface. In designing the typeface's predecessors Concorde and 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 the Mergenthaler Linotype Company approached Frutiger in 1974 to turn it into a typeface for print. The Roissy typeface was completed in 1972.
As a result, he proposed a modified version of Concorde, refining it following research into legibility. Frutiger had earlier created an alphabet inspired by Univers and Peignot for Paris Orly Airport, but found the experience a failure due to lack of control and the insistence that all text be in capitals only. Some years later, Frutiger was commissioned to develop a typeface for Roissy Airport. Frutiger wrote of it: "I felt I was on the right track with this grotesque it was a truly novel typeface." Gürtler too wrote of feeling that the design was innovative: "this style didn't exist in grotesques at the time, except for Gill Sans." Despite Frutiger and Gürtler's enthusiasm, the design failed to sell well and was discontinued with the end of the metal type period: Frutiger wrote that Linotype, who bought Sofratype, "weren't aware of the fact that with Concorde they had a totally up-to-date typeface." In practice the design was drawn by his colleague (and fellow Swiss in Paris) André Gürtler as Frutiger was busy. Frutiger was asked to create a design that would not be too similar to his previous Univers, a reinvention of classic 19th-century typefaces. The beginning of Frutiger starts from Concorde, a sans-serif font Frutiger was commissioned to design in 1961-4 by the minor metal type company Sofratype. 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, which itself was based on Concorde, a font Frutiger had created in the early 1960s. New Swiss road signs near Lugano use the typeface ASTRA-Frutigerįrutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger.
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