Neue Frutiger
Neue Frutiger, 2009 - retooled with additional weights and improved spacing
The Frutiger typeface was originally designed for the signage for the new Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris in the early 1970s. The brief to Adrian Frutiger and his studio was to produce the clearest and most legible lettering possible. This new typeface was so effective that it generated a huge demand from others wanting to employ it in signage and printed materials. The Frutiger® typeface not only established new standards for signage, but also for a range of other areas in which a clear and legible design would be required, especially for small point sizes and bread-and-butter type. The typeface family that emerged as a result was added into the Linotype library as “Frutiger” in 1977.
Frutiger Next, created in 1999, is a further development of Frutiger, not necessarily a rethinking of the design itself. It was based on a new concept, the most obvious visual characteristics of which is the larger x-height, as well as a more pronounced ascender height and descender depth for lower case letters in relation to capitals. This new design created a balanced image and included considerably narrower letterspacing. Frutiger Next meets the demand for a space-saving, modern humanist sans.
2009’s Neue Frutiger is a rethink of the 1977 Frutiger family, now revised and improved by Akira Kobayashi in close collaboration with Adrian Frutiger. Despite the various changes, this “New Frutiger” still fits perfectly with the original Frutiger family, and serves to harmoniously enhance the weights and styles already in existence.
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