Univers Font Family was designed by Adrian Frutiger on Swiss rules for Charles Peignot at Deberny & Peignot.
Frutiger imposed strict self-discipline throughout all parts of the sequence, from mild to darkish, additional condensed to prolonged, Univers Font Family concordance of design that was attainable within the foundry kind and photocomposition fonts.
Any model could also be combined inside a phrase with every other. It could also be argued that the design of the most well-liked central sequence is restricted by strict conformity to little used extremes.
If Helvetica offers us the strongest central designs at some sacrifice in uniformity throughout the sequence, Univers offers us a uniform sequence by disciplining the central designs.
Alteration of character widths required by the Monotype caster separates Monotype Univers from the unique; the Linotype photocomposition model, designed by Frutiger, has a extra even coloration throughout the sequence, achieved by stress-free the unique inflexible components for stroke width.
IBM Selectric Univers, designed by Frutiger, is much less profitable because it needed to be positioned on widths tuned for Times Roman.
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