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Adrian Fruitger

Adrian Fruitger was born on May 24, 1928. He is famous in the world of type because he was one of the best type designers in the 20^th century. His most famous works are creating the typefaces Univers and Fruitger.

Adrian was born in Switzerland. His father was a weaver giving Adrian some art experience at an early age. As a child Adrian didn’t follow the correct guidelines for penmanship at school and was also getting in trouble for creating different ways of writing. Because of this his teachers recommended that he work as a printer for a profession.

When Adrian was sixteen he was an apprentice for the printer Otto Schaerffli. Then Adrian decided to the to a school for fine arts. At school he learned a lot about calligraphy since this is what he was most interested in. He became very interested in hand making type by mixing different kinds of media.

Soon after he finished school a company hired him by the name of Deberny and Peignot. There he designed the typefaces “President”, “Phoebus” and “Ondine”.

His career took off and he became a famous designer creating more typefaces and becoming more interested in many different looking kinds of type.

Adrian Fruitger continues to work and reside near Bern, and will most likely keep designing until his death.