Adrian Johann Frutiger was a Swiss typeface designer who influenced the direction of type design in the second half of the 20th century. His career spanned the hot metal, phototypesetting and digital
Frutiger in 1990
Univers Bold Condensed on a London street sign
Frutiger in use by the Dutch rail system
Avenir used by the election campaign of French president François Hollande
Univers is a sans-serif typeface family designed by Adrian Frutiger and released by his employer Deberny & Peignot in 1957. Classified as a neo-grotesque sans-serif, one based on the model of nineteen
Rémy Peignot's Univers graphic emphasised the family's scope through referencing the periodic table.
Keycaps featuring Univers from a pre-2003 PowerBook G4
Audi Sans, a variation of Univers used in the dashboard graphics of an Audi A3 instrument panel
A specimen sheet of Univers Flair.