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Frutiger Pompidou typeface
Posted by venticaratteruzzi in
11 Nov 2010 — 2:13am
11 Nov 2010 — 2:13am
Dear all,
I'm looking for the typeface Adrian Frutiger designed in the '70 for the Centre George Pompidou.
Do you knows any digital version (or something else very similar)?
Thanks
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11 Nov 2010 — 3:03am
Well, this typeface became the typeface with the name ‹Frutiger› itself.
11 Nov 2010 — 3:21am
... And this typeface was actually designed at the end of the 1960's for the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport signage.
11 Nov 2010 — 4:30am
You guys are on the wrong track. The CGP type was a rounded slab, not his famous sans.
11 Nov 2010 — 4:33am
Oh, of course! I mixed it up with the Roissy alphabet. Pompidou was the enquiry.
11 Nov 2010 — 5:58am
The source of these pictures (with more pictures and background information en français):
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-identite-visuelle/...
11 Nov 2010 — 6:26am
American Typewriter is the closest thing I can think of offhand.
11 Nov 2010 — 9:20am
Indeed! Sorry for the mixup.
11 Nov 2010 — 9:58am
Serifa
11 Nov 2010 — 10:39am
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11 Nov 2010 — 11:01am
According to Frutiger Typefaces: The Complete Works, this has been digitized by André Baldinger in 1997, but it's not on his website.
11 Nov 2010 — 2:00pm
Interesting typeface, I’ve never seen it before. Both warm and sturdy, both feminine and masculine, both casual and formal. Now I understand why the redesign set the cat among the pigeons…
11 Nov 2010 — 2:26pm
Interesting that it has a bit of the feeling of H&FJ's Archer.
11 Nov 2010 — 2:38pm
FYI I have taken the liberty of pointing André this way.
Maybe he can share some more information…
It is a super-interesting typeface. The Frutiger book has a fascinating (if very short) bit about how they accounted for it being used mainly vertically, for signage.
12 Nov 2010 — 12:50am
This being said, I think Din fits the museum quite well.
12 Nov 2010 — 9:49am
Vi ringrazio molto: è che sto lavorando a un progetto in cui è molto importante la leggibilità "upside down"...
Ma come ho fatto a non accorgermi prima del lavoro di Frutiger (che pure ho visto tante volte)?
Sarà che sono un po' stanco...