Adrian Frutiger is best known as a type-designer. He was born in 1928 in Interlaken, Switzerland, and at the age of 16 "he was working as a printer’s apprentice near his home town." After this portion of his life he moved to Zurich where he studied at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts under Professor Walter Kach. After this, Frutiger moved to Paris working at the Deberny & Peignot typfoundry. At the same time as he was working here, he began to create his own typefaces, a few that were very significant and gave him the status as one of the great type designers. He is the creator and the founder of the typeface, Univers. Univers is a sans-serif typeface with a higher x-height and was released to the public in 1957. The interesting thing about this typeface is that different variations and weights, all within the type family have been designated by the use of numbers instead of names. The univers family has 44 faces, 16 of them uniquely numbered by weight and width. Twenty of the fonts have oblique positions. What makes Univers unique is that there are is a wide variety of different faces that make it suitable to use in many different occupations. It looks a bit more modern and is just as good to use for body text as well as the title. There are 21 styles in the Univers Grid. The definition of a Univers Grid is "a chart which documents the different variations of the font based on stroke weight and kerning."
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