Originally conceived and released by Deberny & Peignot in 1957, Created by Adrian Frutiger. Univers is one of a group of neo-grotesque sans-serif typefaces all released in 1957, that includes Folio and Neue Hass Grotesk (Helvetica). These three typefaces dominate the Swiss style of graphic design.
Different weights and variations within the Univers type family are designated by the use of numbers rather than names, a system since adopted by Frutiger for other type designs. Frutiger envisioned a large family with multiple widths and weights that maintained a unified design idiom. However, the actual typeface names within Univers family include both number and letter suffixes.
Currently, Univers type family consists of 44 faces, with 16 uniquely numbered weight, width, position combinations. 20 fonts ahve oblique positions. 8 fonts support central European characters set. 8 support Cyrilic character set.
In 1997 Frutiger reworked the whole Univers family cooperation with Linotype thus creating Linotype Univers, which consists of 63 fonts. By reworking the Univers more "extreme" weights as Ultra Light or Extended Heavy were added as well as some monospaced typefaces. The numbering system was extended to three digits to reflect the larger number of variations in the family.
Some of its most memorable and important usager where in the Swiss International Airlines branding, Montreal Metro, The Royal Air Force, Audi's Corporate identity, Portal's Aperture Science logo and the current eBay logo among many others.
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