2

HISTORYThe Avenir Next font family was de-signed by Adian Frutiger in collabora-tion with lead designer (now linotype Director) Akira Kobayashi. It was a ex-panded reworking of the original font family (released as an open type font with both old styl e and lining figures) and received considerable acclaim upon its publication by Lintotype in 2004.

Bold Italic 131 pt

Medium 18 pt

3

HISTORYTFpcyaee

s

Demi Bold

ItalicRegular

Ultra Light ItalicUltra Light

MediumMedium Italic

Demi Bold ItalicBold

Bold ItalicHeavy

Heavy ItalicRegular 123 pt

31 pt

4

The font was instantly successful in print and with its expanded range of characters and specific optimization, equally success-ful as an on-screen font. Many companies have adopted the font for use in official literature as well as logotype.

The font was instantly successful in print and with its expanded range of characters and specific optimization, equally successful as an on-screen font.

Ultra Light

Ultra Light Italic

The font was instantly successful in print and with its expanded range of charac-ters and specific optimization, equally successful as an on-screen font. Regular

The font was in-stantly successful in print and with its expanded range of characters and specific optimiza-tion, equally suc-cessful as an on-screen font.

The font was in-stantly successful in print and with its expanded range of characters and specific optimiza-tion, equally suc-cessful as an on-screen font.

The font was instantly successful in print and with its expanded range of charac-ters and specific optimization, equally successful as an on-screen font.

Italic

Medium Italic

15 pt

Medium

5

The font was instantly successful in print and with its expanded range of charac-ters and specific optimization, equally successful as an on-screen font.

The font was in-stantly successful in print and with its expanded range of charac-ters and specif-ic optimization, equally successful as an on-screen font.

The font was in-stantly successful in print and with its expanded range of charac-ters and specific optimization,

The font was instantly successful in print and with its expanded range of characters and specific optimization, equally successful as an on-screen

The font was instantly suc-cessful in print and with its ex-panded range of characters and specific optimi-zation, equally successful as an on-screen font. Many compa-nies have ad-opted the font for use in offi-cial literature as well as logo-type.

The font was instantly successful in print and with its expanded range of characters and specific optimi-zation, equally successful as an on-screen font. Many companies have adopted the font for use in official literature as well as logotype.

Demi Bold

Demi Bold Italic

Bold

Bold ItalicHeavy

Heavy Italic

15 pt

Avenir NextFuture

hile Adrian Frutiger has created such famous typefaces as Univers or Frutiger, another matter has remained very close to his heart – the design of his linear sans serif. Compared to the mere metric construction of other typefaces, Avenir was convincing because of its optical construc-tion which lent it a more humane appearance, as seen, for instance, in the classically drawn “a”. Avenir was originally released with 6 weights for which Frutiger had carefully selected the incre-ments in line thickness.

Regular 48pt

Demi Bold 19pt

Demi Bold 100pt W

7The Love of Linear Symbols

Adrian Frutiger has completely reworked the Avenir type family in close cooperation with Akira Kobayashi, Type Director at Linotype. The result is the Avenir Next with har-moniously incremented weights and matching condensed versions.

Avenir Next is part of the Platinum Collection and comes in 4 type-face sets, Regular, Italic, Condensed and Condensed Italic, each equipped with 6 different stem weights. All 24 weights include true small caps and old style figures.

Avenir Next thereby now offers an optimal balance of harmony and contrast. With the addition of the condensed variants, Avenir Next represents a full-fledged con-tem-porary grotesque, providing professional graphic designers with the greatest degree of typographical flexibil-ity and optimal legi-bilit

Ultra Light Italic15 pt

Ultra Light Italic100 pt

Medium Italic14 pt

Medium 16 pt

Heavy Italic45 pt

y.

8

Avenir NextDesigned By

Karaka Singh