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Frutiger

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Frutiger, named after its Swiss designer Adrian Frutiger (born 1928), is a typeface, belonging to the family of humanist sans-serif typefaces; see "typeface" for more on classification.

It was originally designed for the then so-called Paris airport Roissy, today Charles De Gaulle International Airport.

Frutiger is considered one of the classics of modern typography and forms the basis of many other modern typefaces, such as Bitstream Vera and Verdana.

In the Bitstream font collection, "Frutiger" is part of the Humanist sans-serif classification. The specific equivalent to the "Frutiger" family is Humanist 777.

Linotype, the original publisher of Frutiger has come out in 1999 with a revised version, Frutiger NEXT. The letterforms for the italic faces were dramatically reworked.

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