After slight modifications in stroke thickness, the first Frutiger font weights were produced in 1977. Stempel AG, asked Adrian Frutiger if Stempel could make this typeface available for the Linotype typesetting machines. The font was named Roissy after the airport. He tested with unfocused letters to see which letterforms could still be identified. Adrian Frutiger worked carefully on the letterforms so that characters and words could be recognized even in poor light conditions or when the reader was moving quickly past the sign. The font was bolder than original typesetting fonts in order to offer better legibility for the light boxes of the signage system. In 1968, renowned Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger was commissioned to develop a sign and directional system for the new Airport Roissy, later named Charles de Gaulle Airport, in Paris. Frutiger Arabic font family in OpenType formatįrutiger: a short history of the world's most celebrated font Frutiger Central European (CE) in PostScript and TrueType format only Neue Frutiger font family, revised and improved versions of Frutiger released in 2009 Frutiger Next, redesigned Platinum version of Frutiger the W1G fonts include Greek and Cyrillic glyphs Frutiger Com font family, enhanced screen quality TTF flavoured OT fonts with CE language support Frutiger Pro font family, contains CE language support and additional OT features
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