Perhaps Frutiger’s best known font is Univers, on which he started working while studying at the Kunstgewerbeschule school of arts and crafts in Zürich during the late 1940s.

Adrian Frutiger, who has died aged 87, was a Swiss typeface designer whose sans-serif fonts – Univers, Avenir and Frutiger – have made their mark around the world. Adrian Frutiger.