As a designer one of the things I obsess over is typography and type design. My all-time favorite type designer was Adrian Frutiger. Frutiger designed over 50 fonts behind the OCR-B and the standard alphabet for character recognition.
My go-to font is Univers — it was the most acclaimed typeface he designed. Univers was one of the first breakthroughs of the new system of phototypesetting, which replaced the method of casting a font in lead. From this point on, technological progress for typography was rapid.
My top 10 creations of his (in alphabetical order) are:
Avenir • Didot • Egyptienne • Frutiger • Glypha • Iridium • President • Univers • Serifa • Zurich
I truly believe in one of the things that Frutiger said.
“…the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.”
I am such a font nerd that I am now and Adjunct Professor of Design at Southern Connecticut State University teaching Typography.
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