The Offices of Kat Ran Press : Postage Stamps by Type Designers

90c
Switzerland. 1998
Swiss Post
Design by K. Wälti and Adrian Frutiger

This page was made possible with help from
Dan Keleher : wildcarrotletterpress.com
Jerry Manning

Adrian Frutiger (b. 1928) was born in the Swiss Alps and spent most of his carreer in France. In 1952, he oversaw the drawing office at Deberny & Peignot in Paris, and in 1961 he founded his own studio with Bruno Pfäffli and André Gürtler. His were amoung the very first faces developed for photo-typesetting, and he also developed a face for Optical Character Recognition. His self-titled face, Frutiger, was developed from his lettering for the Charles de Gaulle Airport. To read more about his work, click here. To see more of his faces, click here.

Apollo

Frutiger 55

Meridien

Univers 65 Bold