Galerie typo - Frutiger Capitalis Regular and Outline

Font Designer: Adrian Frutiger, 2005

Adrian Frutiger has created an entire typeface universe. He is especially well-known for his highly readable faces for longer texts (Meridien®, Univers®, Glypha®, Centennial® etc.), but has also produced many popular decorative alphabets, such as Ondine™, Phoebus and President™, which he created in Paris in 1953.

More recently, he has applied his skills to the typefaces of the Linotype Project Type before Gutenberg". These include the light-footed and extravagant Herculanum®, the narrow Pompeijana™ with its diamond-shaped serifs and the robust Rusticana™, all derived from roman origins.

Frutiger® Capitalis Regular and Outline belong in this group as well; however, they are not based on direct historical sources. At first glance, they may seem related to the roman type Capitalis Monumentalis, but opon closer examination, the fonts reveal a vitality unknown to the characters the Romans etched in stone. Frutiger confesses that creating Capitalis was "a liberation". After working on so many sophisticated and meticulously designed typefaces, Capitalis was a breath of fresh air.