Frutiger font is a humanist sans serif typeface that was designed by a Swiss typographer Adrian Frutiger. In 1968 this font was designed for the signage system of Charles De Gaulle Airport Paris.
With the collaboration of Linotype foundry, the designer expended this typeface and create a complete font family with the name “Frutiger Font”.
This font family includes 19 styles and 9 weights such as Regular, Bold, Italic, Black, Light and so on. It can support multiple languages including French, Russian, Latin, Expended and many more.
This font family is also popular for its Arabic and Roman alphabets. This is presently available in the Product of Microsoft such as Microsoft Word.
The style of this typeface is quite similar to the Montserrat Font. This is also highly used on many notable websites and many other Organizations adopted this font for their regular designs.
Reason to Use Frutiger Font
Around the world, any institutions and companies used this font as an official typeface. Some of them are listed below:
This font was used as an official typeface by the German Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, London School of Economics, University of Iceland and University of Lausanne
As a secondary typeface, Cornell University used this font along with Palatino. This font was used by Alcatel Lucent in their logo. For signage and printed documents, Amtrak used this typeface.
A rapid transit system, West Japan railway and east Japan railway companies used this font for way finding signage system. For vehicle striping, this font was used by Dutch emergency services.
It is the most suitable font for your designs and text designs. It is too great for small text and long texts as well.
You can utilize this font for your Headlines, Titles, Content, Invoices, Quotes, general reports, Articles, Post descriptions, PowerPoint Presentations, Store/Hotel/Building names, and plenty of more places.
Font Details
Name | Frutiger Font |
Designer | Adrian Frutiger |
Style | Sans-serif |
File Format | OTF, TTF |
License | Free For Personal Use |
Frutiger Font Free Download
If you are looking for a freeware version of this typeface, you can get it by clicking the below download button.
Frutiger Font View
Frutiger Font Family (Includes Total 19 Typefaces)
- Frutiger® 45 Light
- Frutiger® 46 Light Italic
- Frutiger® 55 Roman
- Frutiger® 56 Italic
- Frutiger® 65 Bold
- Frutiger® 66 Bold Italic
- Frutiger® 75 Black
- Frutiger® 76 Black Italic
- Frutiger® 95 Ultra Black
- Frutiger® 47 Light Condensed
- Frutiger® 48 Light Condensed Italic
- Frutiger® 57 Condensed
- Frutiger® 58 Condensed Italic
- Frutiger® 67 Bold Condensed
- Frutiger® 68 Bold Condensed Italic
- Frutiger® 77 Black Condensed
- Frutiger® 78 Black Condensed Italic
- Frutiger® 87 Extra Black Condensed
- Frutiger® 88 Extra Black Condensed Italic
Alternatives of Frutiger Font
- Montserrat Font
- PT Sans Font
- Global Font
- Museo Sans Font
- Sinkin Sans Font
- Varela Font
- Adora Font
- Myriad Font
- Segoe UI Font
- Tahoma Font
- Upgrade Font
License Info
This font can be used free of cost in any personal or private project. However, if you want to use this typeface for commercial projects, you will have to purchase its license.
Most Frequently Asked Questions!
Is Frutiger Font Free?
Yes, the download of this font is free. You download and use this font for your designs. If you want to commercialize your projects then you need to buy the license for this typeface.
The major difference between these two fonts is the apertures of the small letters that are wider than Helvetica Font. The characters of the Frutiger font are also visible in low light and from the distance.
According to the last research, Adobe is not offering the actual font that was designed by Adrian Frutiger. Adobe is providing many more fonts that are identical to this font.
Is Frutiger a good font?
This font is designed for signage purposes because it has perfect readability from a distance or even in low light. So, without a doubt, it is a good font.
Where can I get Frutiger Font?
You can simply click on the download button that is given on this web page. After clicking on the download button it will automatically download in a zip file.