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Adrian Frutiger has died

254 points by acdanger 11y ago

th0ma5 11y ago
I'm curious about the comment in the caption of the portrait in this story, specifically that harmonious typefaces are only achievable by hand. Anyone have any more details about this? Hopefully there are many aspects of design that are still solely within the realm of people, but this may be slightly shrinking every day.
- 542458 11y ago
  To clarify, I believe that his stance was that while digital reproductions of a finished font are satisfactory, the creative process and the original design of a typeface must always be done by hand. You can see some of his hand-drawn works here, on the Zurich University of the Arts' website: http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asimages/search@?criteria=frutiger&rg=Objects,,0&sm=[Objects,%20Exhibitions,%20Sites,%20People,%20MediaModule] http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asimages/search@?criteria... Here are some particularly interesting ones: http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/52/title-asc?criteria=frutiger&rg=Objects,,0&sm=[Objects,%20Exhibitions,%20Sites,%20People,%20MediaModule] http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/52/title-a... http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/65/title-asc?criteria=frutiger&rg=Objects,,0&sm=[Objects,%20Exhibitions,%20Sites,%20People,%20MediaModule] http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/65/title-a... http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/114/title-asc?criteria=frutiger&rg=Objects,,0&sm=[Objects,%20Exhibitions,%20Sites,%20People,%20MediaModule] http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/114/title-...
pavlov 11y ago
The article mentions Univers as his best known typeface. Although that is probably true historically, I think many HN readers would be much more familiar with Avenir. Avenir ships with OS X and iOS, and is widely used for startup landing pages, among a million other things (Avenir seems to be somehow very close to the 2010s zeitgeist). Posted yesterday was this beautiful product site, of course set in Avenir: http://www.notion.so http://www.notion.so RIP Mr Frutiger, who perhaps did more for sans serif than anyone else since Eric Gill.
- dublinben 11y ago
  > http://www.notion.so/ http://www.notion.so/ I love more than anything else, sites that treat me as a second-class citizen for using a non-proprietary browser. They must have so many users already, that they don't mind alienating a large portion of their audience.
  - 542458 11y ago
    > treat me as a second-class citizen I think you're being a little excessively hyperbolic. They don't support your browser yet and state as much - that's hardly malicious or demeaning to you. They also promise support is coming soon. It's a very early phase product that uses a lot of newer and less universal APIs. It's not that they have so many users that they don't care - rather, it's that they're still beta testing and haven't been able to devote the resources yet. I really fail to see the problem here.
    - barrkel 11y ago
      You only get one chance to make a first impression, etc. I have a similar antipathy for Quora for requiring facebook logins to view their content (not actually theirs, their users' content) that came up during search results. I believe they've now dropped the facebook login requirement, and I think they now show a lot of content from organic search traffic, but I plan on ignoring them anyway for as long as possible.
      - 542458 11y ago
        Oh, I don't disagree that the specific method followed by this site is garbage. I just felt that the comment I was replying to was overanalyzing the motives behind a relatively innocuous (if poorly thought out) piece of content.
  - Ianvdl 11y ago
    It's very short-sighted (even arrogant?) on the developer's part to assume that someone will switch to a different browser just for their site. And it's not just non-proprietary browsers, it's just any browser not cherry picked by the developer, which for some inexplicable reason includes the iPhone but not Firefox, Edge or Opera.
e15ctr0n 11y ago
Frutiger's personality and work are sensitively depicted in two documentaries that are worth watching: "Adrian Frutiger - Typographer" (1999) [0] and "The Man of Black and White: Adrian Frutiger" (2005) [1]. "Just My Type", Simon Garfield's wildly popular book on typefaces, has a chapter titled "What is it about the Swiss?" which has a whole section dedicated to Frutiger. [2] Frutiger's design philosophy is beautifully reflected in this quote: "If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful." Edit: Frutiger did a very detailed interview during the 1998 ATypI conference that was published in the graphic design journal, Eye, in 1999 [3]. Long read, but worth it to understand the man and his work. Linotype has published an excellent obituary [4]. "Adrian Frutiger Typefaces: The Complete Works" is available on amazon.com [5] and amazon.co.uk [6]. A sneak peak is on ISSUU [7]. [0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426872/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426872/ [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0934510/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0934510/ [2] http://www.betterworldbooks.com/just-my-type-id-1592407463.aspx http://www.betterworldbooks.com/just-my-type-id-1592407463.a... [3] http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-adrian-frutiger http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-adria... [4] http://www.linotype.com/720-34866/adrianfrutigerremembered.html http://www.linotype.com/720-34866/adrianfrutigerremembered.h... [5] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3038215260/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3038215260/ [6] http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3038215260/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3038215260/ [7] http://issuu.com/birkhauser.ch/docs/adrian-frutiger-typefaces http://issuu.com/birkhauser.ch/docs/adrian-frutiger-typeface...
- akamaka 11y ago
  Thanks for sharing that quote! It summarizes exactly what I've felt since I first encountered his fonts, which is that they have an amazing "neutralness" to them. The Avenir font started with Futura and smoothed out its distinctive quirks. I sometimes have to look closely before being sure a font is really Avenir, just because it lacks any imperfections that might betray it as something similar, like Gotham. His fonts might never be as famous as others because their distinctive characteristic is how impeccably unobstrustive they are.
davidw 11y ago
It's interesting to compare typefaces of road signs across Europe. Frutiger is pretty nice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_(typeface) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_(typeface) I like (am used to?) the Italian one too: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_Normale https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_Normale (derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_(typeface) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_(typeface) ) I don't much care for the Austrian/German ones though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_1451 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_1451 - apparently it was designed by committee.
- pavlov 11y ago
  Hey, don't hate on DIN :) For a font designed in 1931, it's impressively timeless. It doesn't seem to communicate any particular era or emotion, so it suits almost anything especially in digital form. Both Google's Roboto and Apple's new San Francisco display fonts seem heavily inspired by DIN (just IMHO of course).
  - derefr 11y ago
    > "It doesn't seem to communicate any particular era or emotion" I'm not wholly sure about that; the strict adherence to line thickness and limited set of curvature angles make me feel like it was adapted from the "font" created by necessity when using road-painting equipment to write asphalt road signs. It which lends the font a "we couldn't do better in one case so let's at least unify on something" feeling that's slightly modernist, similar to logos from the 70s that use unnecessary all-caps to look "digital" because they work with green-screens that don't display lower-case.
    - theoh 11y ago
      I can't give you chapter and verse on this, but when the first autobahns were built, they were composed of straight sections and constant curvature bends. This was perceived by engineers to be the rational way. Landscape designers (who were also involved) eventually convinced the engineers to adopt more sinuous curves, which of course also create transitions (clothoid or Cornu spiral sections) which made the roads easier to drive on.
BorisMelnik 11y ago
very sad to hear - he at least achieved the status where people all over the world are going to miss and remember him
- hobo_mark 11y ago
  Exactly, and yet people look at me weird when I express that being remembered is a worthy pursuit of one's existence, and that the enjoyment of solitary creation is comparable to that of hanging out having some more socially accepted form of 'fun'</rant>
  - coldtea 11y ago
    Only you don't get to enjoy "being remembered".
  - jazzyk 11y ago
    Yes, assuming it is being remembered for something other humans appreciate and are grateful for (as is the case here).
irl_zebra 11y ago
The article states that some of his fonts are highly legible at distances and thus used for some road signs. I'm curious, is there an objective way to determine whether one font is more legible than another, or is it purely subjective? Obviously some fonts are clearly more legible than others, but between the "legible fonts," can one say objectively that one is more legible than another? Can a computer create a font that is the "most" objectively legible?
- manachar 11y ago
  It can, and is objectively measured and tested. Here is a great article in the NY Times magazine about the creation of a new font, Clearview, for highway signage: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazine/12fonts-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazine/12fonts-t.html?pa...
quink 11y ago
Gill Sans and Zapf's Optima were the first big humanist fonts, but they are really best used sparsely. Zapf died earlier this year, by the way. But with Adrian Frutiger's Frutiger the whole world was blown open. Helvetica had a predecessor fairly like it in Akzidenz Grotesk, but Frutiger was something else entirely. Grotesques had been around for decades prior to Helvetica. Frutiger was a revolution. I and everybody should know that our visual world is markedly different because of Adrian Frutiger. Right now, I am on a Windows tablet. Segoe UI, Tahoma, Arial, Verdana, Calibri, Microsoft's (and Matthew Carter's in particular) font efforts here were, but for Arial, so very much direct descendants, if not copies, of Frutiger's Frutiger. The default font in Microsoft Word must count Frutiger as it's most influential ancestor, bar none. On Mac OS X, Lucida Sans is just the same, carrying Frutiger's DNA utterly. And on Linux, Bitstream Vera is just the same. And it's not just Frutiger. Mac OS X's new default font, San Francisco is very much Univers, with some DIN. Univers is the designer's default font of choice for anywhere that Helvetica isn't chosen. I love its condensed form, as used here by Australia Post, and its numbering system was influential too and expressed an incredible range of variation within a single family. It is the ultimate tight font. Avenir was a wonderful reinterpretation of Futura, Serifa is the most sensible slab serif, and the only generally acceptable one next to Rockwell... and that's nothing to say of the cross-pollination of his Frutiger with Univers and Helvetica. Think Roboto and basically half of what's on Google Fonts. His influence on Erik Spiekermann, who drew some fonts that blew the visual landscape open in the 90s and early 2000s is insane when combined with the dutch Thesis and Scala. His influence on every fixed width font that has become popular on computers after Courier New is similarly huge. Adrian Frutiger is, with no doubt, the person that drew our languages the most in the past century, Akzidenz Grotesk coming from 1896. His shapes influenced every comment you read here more than any other person in the past century. He made things legible and beautiful. Even for computers he did, with OCR-B. I think that now with us in a post-Frutiger era, it's going to take a very, very long while for someone to come along and change our written language and visual world with such a bombshell as he did. If ever again - that is a very serious question. We are now entering an area where there's fewer new ideas, but refinement and cross-pollination. The landscape seems like it's settling, with typefaces like Gotham and San Francisco and Roboto being very evolutionary... but with not that much of a way forward? There's been few new strands of DNA in the typeface world since Spiekermann's Meta. (and its very contemporary siblings Thesis and Scala) Let's hope that like the Dalai Lama, we can find Frutiger reincarnated in a new form so that in a few decades he may once again shine us a light and bring to us a genuine future, like his Frutiger had brought upon us before. Either that or we just A-B test signage typefaces out the wazoo and see if something as amazing as that somehow emerges a million generations from now, possibly even within the confines of the Latin alphabet. DIN 1451, which had some influence an Frutiger, isn't spent yet, I don't think. Meta probably is spent by now. Gill Sans is getting close, because of Gotham. Frutiger is getting there :/ We now live in a post-Frutiger world. That's kind of scary, if you think about it. Whatever comes, I hope to at least see the next Frutiger's work and what it means for mankind before I die. I expect it to be interesting.
mark-r 11y ago
First Hermann Zapf in June, now Adrian Frutiger. As a font geek, I am mourning.
amelius 11y ago
Any links to the design philosophy behind the Frutiger font?
- theoh 11y ago
  If Wikipedia doesn't satisfy you, maybe try the "complete works" book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_(typeface) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_(typeface)
chrisjlee 11y ago
I wonder what font will be on his epitaph.

254 points by acdanger 11y ago

I'm curious about the comment in the caption of the portrait in this story, specifically that harmonious typefaces are only achievable by hand. Anyone have any more details about this? Hopefully there are many aspects of design that are still solely within the realm of people, but this may be slightly shrinking every day.

542458 11y ago
To clarify, I believe that his stance was that while digital reproductions of a finished font are satisfactory, the creative process and the original design of a typeface must always be done by hand. You can see some of his hand-drawn works here, on the Zurich University of the Arts' website: http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asimages/search@?criteria=frutiger&rg=Objects,,0&sm=[Objects,%20Exhibitions,%20Sites,%20People,%20MediaModule] http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asimages/search@?criteria... Here are some particularly interesting ones: http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/52/title-asc?criteria=frutiger&rg=Objects,,0&sm=[Objects,%20Exhibitions,%20Sites,%20People,%20MediaModule] http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/52/title-a... http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/65/title-asc?criteria=frutiger&rg=Objects,,0&sm=[Objects,%20Exhibitions,%20Sites,%20People,%20MediaModule] http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/65/title-a... http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/114/title-asc?criteria=frutiger&rg=Objects,,0&sm=[Objects,%20Exhibitions,%20Sites,%20People,%20MediaModule] http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/114/title-...

pavlov 11y ago

The article mentions Univers as his best known typeface. Although that is probably true historically, I think many HN readers would be much more familiar with Avenir. Avenir ships with OS X and iOS, and is widely used for startup landing pages, among a million other things (Avenir seems to be somehow very close to the 2010s zeitgeist). Posted yesterday was this beautiful product site, of course set in Avenir: http://www.notion.so http://www.notion.so RIP Mr Frutiger, who perhaps did more for sans serif than anyone else since Eric Gill.

dublinben 11y ago
> http://www.notion.so/ http://www.notion.so/ I love more than anything else, sites that treat me as a second-class citizen for using a non-proprietary browser. They must have so many users already, that they don't mind alienating a large portion of their audience.
- 542458 11y ago
  > treat me as a second-class citizen I think you're being a little excessively hyperbolic. They don't support your browser yet and state as much - that's hardly malicious or demeaning to you. They also promise support is coming soon. It's a very early phase product that uses a lot of newer and less universal APIs. It's not that they have so many users that they don't care - rather, it's that they're still beta testing and haven't been able to devote the resources yet. I really fail to see the problem here.
  - barrkel 11y ago
    You only get one chance to make a first impression, etc. I have a similar antipathy for Quora for requiring facebook logins to view their content (not actually theirs, their users' content) that came up during search results. I believe they've now dropped the facebook login requirement, and I think they now show a lot of content from organic search traffic, but I plan on ignoring them anyway for as long as possible.
    - 542458 11y ago
      Oh, I don't disagree that the specific method followed by this site is garbage. I just felt that the comment I was replying to was overanalyzing the motives behind a relatively innocuous (if poorly thought out) piece of content.
- Ianvdl 11y ago
  It's very short-sighted (even arrogant?) on the developer's part to assume that someone will switch to a different browser just for their site. And it's not just non-proprietary browsers, it's just any browser not cherry picked by the developer, which for some inexplicable reason includes the iPhone but not Firefox, Edge or Opera.

e15ctr0n 11y ago

Frutiger's personality and work are sensitively depicted in two documentaries that are worth watching: "Adrian Frutiger - Typographer" (1999) [0] and "The Man of Black and White: Adrian Frutiger" (2005) [1]. "Just My Type", Simon Garfield's wildly popular book on typefaces, has a chapter titled "What is it about the Swiss?" which has a whole section dedicated to Frutiger. [2] Frutiger's design philosophy is beautifully reflected in this quote: "If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful." Edit: Frutiger did a very detailed interview during the 1998 ATypI conference that was published in the graphic design journal, Eye, in 1999 [3]. Long read, but worth it to understand the man and his work. Linotype has published an excellent obituary [4]. "Adrian Frutiger Typefaces: The Complete Works" is available on amazon.com [5] and amazon.co.uk [6]. A sneak peak is on ISSUU [7]. [0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426872/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426872/ [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0934510/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0934510/ [2] http://www.betterworldbooks.com/just-my-type-id-1592407463.aspx http://www.betterworldbooks.com/just-my-type-id-1592407463.a... [3] http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-adrian-frutiger http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-adria... [4] http://www.linotype.com/720-34866/adrianfrutigerremembered.html http://www.linotype.com/720-34866/adrianfrutigerremembered.h... [5] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3038215260/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3038215260/ [6] http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3038215260/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3038215260/ [7] http://issuu.com/birkhauser.ch/docs/adrian-frutiger-typefaces http://issuu.com/birkhauser.ch/docs/adrian-frutiger-typeface...

akamaka 11y ago
Thanks for sharing that quote! It summarizes exactly what I've felt since I first encountered his fonts, which is that they have an amazing "neutralness" to them. The Avenir font started with Futura and smoothed out its distinctive quirks. I sometimes have to look closely before being sure a font is really Avenir, just because it lacks any imperfections that might betray it as something similar, like Gotham. His fonts might never be as famous as others because their distinctive characteristic is how impeccably unobstrustive they are.

davidw 11y ago

It's interesting to compare typefaces of road signs across Europe. Frutiger is pretty nice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_(typeface) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_(typeface) I like (am used to?) the Italian one too: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_Normale https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_Normale (derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_(typeface) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_(typeface) ) I don't much care for the Austrian/German ones though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_1451 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_1451 - apparently it was designed by committee.

pavlov 11y ago
Hey, don't hate on DIN :) For a font designed in 1931, it's impressively timeless. It doesn't seem to communicate any particular era or emotion, so it suits almost anything especially in digital form. Both Google's Roboto and Apple's new San Francisco display fonts seem heavily inspired by DIN (just IMHO of course).
- derefr 11y ago
  > "It doesn't seem to communicate any particular era or emotion" I'm not wholly sure about that; the strict adherence to line thickness and limited set of curvature angles make me feel like it was adapted from the "font" created by necessity when using road-painting equipment to write asphalt road signs. It which lends the font a "we couldn't do better in one case so let's at least unify on something" feeling that's slightly modernist, similar to logos from the 70s that use unnecessary all-caps to look "digital" because they work with green-screens that don't display lower-case.
  - theoh 11y ago
    I can't give you chapter and verse on this, but when the first autobahns were built, they were composed of straight sections and constant curvature bends. This was perceived by engineers to be the rational way. Landscape designers (who were also involved) eventually convinced the engineers to adopt more sinuous curves, which of course also create transitions (clothoid or Cornu spiral sections) which made the roads easier to drive on.

BorisMelnik 11y ago

very sad to hear - he at least achieved the status where people all over the world are going to miss and remember him

hobo_mark 11y ago
Exactly, and yet people look at me weird when I express that being remembered is a worthy pursuit of one's existence, and that the enjoyment of solitary creation is comparable to that of hanging out having some more socially accepted form of 'fun'</rant>
- coldtea 11y ago
  Only you don't get to enjoy "being remembered".
- jazzyk 11y ago
  Yes, assuming it is being remembered for something other humans appreciate and are grateful for (as is the case here).

irl_zebra 11y ago

The article states that some of his fonts are highly legible at distances and thus used for some road signs. I'm curious, is there an objective way to determine whether one font is more legible than another, or is it purely subjective? Obviously some fonts are clearly more legible than others, but between the "legible fonts," can one say objectively that one is more legible than another? Can a computer create a font that is the "most" objectively legible?

manachar 11y ago
It can, and is objectively measured and tested. Here is a great article in the NY Times magazine about the creation of a new font, Clearview, for highway signage: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazine/12fonts-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/magazine/12fonts-t.html?pa...

quink 11y ago

Gill Sans and Zapf's Optima were the first big humanist fonts, but they are really best used sparsely. Zapf died earlier this year, by the way. But with Adrian Frutiger's Frutiger the whole world was blown open. Helvetica had a predecessor fairly like it in Akzidenz Grotesk, but Frutiger was something else entirely. Grotesques had been around for decades prior to Helvetica. Frutiger was a revolution. I and everybody should know that our visual world is markedly different because of Adrian Frutiger. Right now, I am on a Windows tablet. Segoe UI, Tahoma, Arial, Verdana, Calibri, Microsoft's (and Matthew Carter's in particular) font efforts here were, but for Arial, so very much direct descendants, if not copies, of Frutiger's Frutiger. The default font in Microsoft Word must count Frutiger as it's most influential ancestor, bar none. On Mac OS X, Lucida Sans is just the same, carrying Frutiger's DNA utterly. And on Linux, Bitstream Vera is just the same. And it's not just Frutiger. Mac OS X's new default font, San Francisco is very much Univers, with some DIN. Univers is the designer's default font of choice for anywhere that Helvetica isn't chosen. I love its condensed form, as used here by Australia Post, and its numbering system was influential too and expressed an incredible range of variation within a single family. It is the ultimate tight font. Avenir was a wonderful reinterpretation of Futura, Serifa is the most sensible slab serif, and the only generally acceptable one next to Rockwell... and that's nothing to say of the cross-pollination of his Frutiger with Univers and Helvetica. Think Roboto and basically half of what's on Google Fonts. His influence on Erik Spiekermann, who drew some fonts that blew the visual landscape open in the 90s and early 2000s is insane when combined with the dutch Thesis and Scala. His influence on every fixed width font that has become popular on computers after Courier New is similarly huge. Adrian Frutiger is, with no doubt, the person that drew our languages the most in the past century, Akzidenz Grotesk coming from 1896. His shapes influenced every comment you read here more than any other person in the past century. He made things legible and beautiful. Even for computers he did, with OCR-B. I think that now with us in a post-Frutiger era, it's going to take a very, very long while for someone to come along and change our written language and visual world with such a bombshell as he did. If ever again - that is a very serious question. We are now entering an area where there's fewer new ideas, but refinement and cross-pollination. The landscape seems like it's settling, with typefaces like Gotham and San Francisco and Roboto being very evolutionary... but with not that much of a way forward? There's been few new strands of DNA in the typeface world since Spiekermann's Meta. (and its very contemporary siblings Thesis and Scala) Let's hope that like the Dalai Lama, we can find Frutiger reincarnated in a new form so that in a few decades he may once again shine us a light and bring to us a genuine future, like his Frutiger had brought upon us before. Either that or we just A-B test signage typefaces out the wazoo and see if something as amazing as that somehow emerges a million generations from now, possibly even within the confines of the Latin alphabet. DIN 1451, which had some influence an Frutiger, isn't spent yet, I don't think. Meta probably is spent by now. Gill Sans is getting close, because of Gotham. Frutiger is getting there :/ We now live in a post-Frutiger world. That's kind of scary, if you think about it. Whatever comes, I hope to at least see the next Frutiger's work and what it means for mankind before I die. I expect it to be interesting.

mark-r 11y ago

First Hermann Zapf in June, now Adrian Frutiger. As a font geek, I am mourning.

amelius 11y ago

Any links to the design philosophy behind the Frutiger font?

theoh 11y ago
If Wikipedia doesn't satisfy you, maybe try the "complete works" book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_(typeface) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_(typeface)

chrisjlee 11y ago

I wonder what font will be on his epitaph.