Adrian Frutiger, font designer - obituary. Designer whose fonts are used in street signs and airports as well as by Apple, Audi and eBay. 13 October 2015 • 5:24pm .

The Neue Frutiger World typeface is an expansive family of functional, legible and warm fonts comprised of 10 scripts that cover more than 150 languages including Latin-based languages, Greek ...

Frutiger on highway signage in Switzerland, photo via Typography Guru. When we travel in different countries, we rely on typefaces more heavily—a quick read of a street sign is critical.

NEW YORK — For more than 50 years, Adrian Frutiger made the world legible. A type designer who died Sept. 10 at 87 in his native Switzerland, Mr. Frutiger created some of the most widely used ...

He was one of the few typographers who worked with hot metal, photographic and digital typesetting during his long career. Besides his well-known Univers family of sans serif typefaces, Frutiger ...