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Avenir is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1987 [1] and released in 1988 by Linotype GmbH. The word avenir is French for ' future ' . As the name suggests, the family takes inspiration from the geometric style of sans-serif typeface developed in the 1920s that took the circle as a basis, such as Erbar and Futura .
Adrian Johann Frutiger [1] (Swiss Standard German: [ˈaːdriaːn ˈjoːhan ˈfruːtɪɡər]; 24 May 1928 – 10 September 2015) was a Swiss typeface designer who influenced the direction of type design in the second half of the 20th century.
Designer: Adrian Frutiger Class: Neo-grotesque : Open Sans Designer: Steve Matteson Class: Humanist : Optima Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Humanist : Overpass Designer: Delve Witherington Class: Mixed : Oxygen Designer: Vernon Adams (type designer) Proxima Nova Designer: Mark Simonson Class: Geometric-grotesque : Radis Sans Designer: Gaël Goy ...
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Avenir is the French word for "future". ... Avenir (typeface), a typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger; Avenir, Alberta, Canada; Buick Avenir, a concept car;
[22] Leading type designer Adrian Frutiger wrote in 1961 on designing a new face, Univers, on the nineteenth-century model: "Some of these old sans-serifs have had a real renaissance within the last twenty years, once the reaction of the 'New Objectivity' had been overcome. A purely geometrical form of type is unsustainable."
New Swiss road signs near Lugano use the typeface ASTRA-Frutiger.. Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger.It is the text version of Frutiger's earlier typeface Roissy, commissioned in 1970/71 [6] 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 ...
The typeface Avenir Next in condensed and regular widths. Some typefaces include fonts that vary the width of the characters (stretch), although this feature is usually rarer than weight or slope. Narrower fonts are usually labeled compressed, condensed or narrow. In Frutiger's system, the second digit of condensed fonts is a 7.