Adrian Frutiger was born March 24, 1928 in Interlaken, Switzerland. As common with most specialty crafts at the time, Frutiger began working as an apprentice in a printer’s shop. Later, he went to study at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts.
When he was through with his education, Frutiger moved to Paris. He worked at a typefoundry, and this was about the same time he started creating his own typefaces. The first typeface he released was called President. He created this in 1952 and it would shape the rest of his fonts. Other fonts he created include’ Phoebus, Ondine, Meridien, Egyptienne, Univers, Apollo, Serifa, OCR-B, Iridium, Frutiger, Glypha, Icone, Breughel, Versailles, Avenir, and Vectora.
Univers was realeased in 1957 by the Deberny & Peignot type foundry. It is unique because when it was first designed, it had twenty-one different variations. These variations went by a number instead of a name. Currently there are twenty-seven variations. Univers works well on a large scale and is still very legible with a tiny font size. This may be do to the large x-height.
The Univers grid has different squares that show the variations of the font based on stroke, weight, and kerning.
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