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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 ...
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In the 1960s, after abandoning a project to create an arrowhead price guide, Overstreet turned his attention to comics, which had no definitive guide. [ 1 ] Comic back-issue prices had stabilized by the end of the 1960s, [ 2 ] and, Jerry Bails , who had recently published the Collector's Guide to the First Heroic Age , was considering creating ...
Frutiger may refer to: Adrian Frutiger, a Swiss typeface designer; Frutiger Aero, a user interface design style and Internet aesthetic; Frutiger AG, a Swiss construction company; Frutiger (typeface), a typeface designed by the Swiss typeface designer Adrian Frutiger
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.
Frutiger Aero visuals in user interface design (KDE Plasma 4 from 2011).Frutiger Aero (/ f r uː t ɪ ɡ ə r ɛ ə r ə ʊ /), sometimes known as Web 2.0 Gloss, [1] is a retrospective name applied to a design trend observed mainly in user interfaces and Internet aesthetics from the mid-2000s to the early 2010s. [2]
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.
OCR-B is a monospace font developed in 1968 by Adrian Frutiger for Monotype by following the European Computer Manufacturer's Association standard. Its function was to facilitate the optical character recognition operations by specific electronic devices, originally for financial and bank-oriented uses.