Eventually Frutiger went to work at the Paris foundry Deberny Et Peignot. This was the time when Helvetica and Futura were all the rage, spurring an age of sans serif, Swiss-inspired type.

Adrian Frutiger, the legendary type designer who created Univers, Avenir, and the eponymous Frutiger typeface, died on Saturday at the age of 87. Frutiger–along with the late Hermann Zapf, who ...

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 ...