- Adrian Frutiger was born on May 24, 1928 in Unterseen, Bern, Switzerland. He was married to Simone Huguette Bickel and Paulette Flückiger. He died on September 10, 2015 in Bremgarten, Bern, Switzerland.
- SpousesSimone Huguette Bickel(1955 - September 10, 2015) (his death, 2 children)Paulette Flückiger(1952 - 1954) (her death, 1 child)
- He was a graphic designer who created some of the most widely used fonts of the 20th century, seen in airports, on street signs, and in subway stations around the world. His best-known fonts include Univers and Frutiger. OCR-B is an optical-character font he designed in 1968; it was adopted five years later as a world standard. It can be read by machines as well as humans, and is used on checks.
- He graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Zurich. He moved to Paris, where he was a designer with a type foundry, eventually becoming its artistic director. There he created some of his earliest fonts, among them Président, Méridien, and Ondine. In the early 1960s he founded his own studio.
- As a youth he wanted to be a sculptor, but his father discouraged him from taking up an insecure trade. He was apprenticed to a typesetter as a teenager.
- The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape. Spoons and letters are tools. The first we need to ingest bodily nourishment from a bowl, the latter we need to ingest mental nourishment from a piece of paper.
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