Adrian Frutiger is a Swiss typeface designer who is most famous for his Univers font, a grotesque (or, some claim, neo-grotesque) sans-serif font, meaning that it has lowercase letters as well as the capitals. Adrian was born in 1928 and started developing scripts in rebellion of the cursive taught in school. 
Later in life, he was an apprentice under Otto Schaerffli, then moved on to study calligraphy at the school of applied arts in Zürich. After this, he joined the Deberny & Peignot foundry, where he developed such fonts as "Président", "Phoebus", and "Ondine."
One of his innovations in typography was his invention of a two-integer numbering system to denote weight and width respectively (weight being the width of the line elements of the characters and width being the width of the entire character). Using 55 as a middle-ground (roman), fonts branch out (as shown in the grid pictured) ranging from the thin and condensed 39 (high numbers are condensed and low, extended, in the second place) to an extended bold 93, a condensed bold 67, and so on.TYPO
Wikipedia - Adrian Frutiger
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