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In 1954 the French type foundry Deberny & Peignot wanted to add a linear sans serif type in several weights to the range of the Lumitype fonts.

Adrian Frutiger, the foundry’s art director, suggested refrain-ing from adapting an existing alphabet. He wanted to instead make a new font that would, above all, be suitable for the typesetting of longer texts quite an exciting challenge for a sans-serif font at that time.

Starting with his old sketches from his student days at the School for the Applied Arts in Zurich, he created the Univers type family. In 1957, the family was released by Deberny & Peignot, and afterwards, it was produced b y Linotype.

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Adrianfrutiger

“...Univers is one of the most usefull typeface inventend in human history...”

Penny! [Knock-knock-knock]

UNIVERS 39

Hey Leonard, what’s up with Dr Wackadoodle?

Whassup Moonpie?

Oh sweetie you’d be the last

to know about it

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39 THIN ULTRA CONDENSED

Leonard LeakeyHofstadter, PhD.

UNIVERS 47

Yeah, yeah, ah, see here’s the thing, after you leave, I still have to

live with him.Ethyl alcohol inhibits electrical

conduction in the nerve cells and stimulates re-uptake receptors of

inhibitory neurotransmitters like gamma-amino butyric acid.

You shush!

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47 LIGHT CONDENSED

I don’t want to go back to India! It’s hot, and it’s loud, and there are so many people! You have no idea they’re everywhere.

My religion teaches that if we suffer in this life we are rewarded in the next. Three months at the North Pole with Sheldon and I’m reborn as a well-hung bil-lionaire with wings!

Excuse me but I don’t think Penny is out of line at all. You don’t own her. It’s like my girl Beyonce says: If you like you should’ve put a ring on it.

ow can I be a gynecologist? I can barely look a woman in the eye!!

With your American

accent, everything you say sounds stupid!

rajesh Koothrappali

UNIVERS 55

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55 ROMAN

Raj, there’s no place for truth on

the Internet

Howard

WOLOWITZUNIVERS 83

I´m a horny ENGINEERI never joke about mathor sex

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Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, Then nearly fourteen billion years agoexpansion started. Wait...The Earth began to cool, The autotrophs began to drool, Neanderthals developed tools, We built a wall (we built the pyramids), Math, science, history,

unravelling the mysteries, That all started with the

big bang!“Since the dawn of man” is really not that long, As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song. A fraction of a second and the elements were made.

The bipeds stood up straight, The dinosaurs all met their fate, They

tried to leap but they were late And they all died (they froze their asses off) The oceans and pangea See ya,

wouldn’t wanna be ya Set in motion by the same big bang! It all started

with the

UNIVERS 55

It’s expanding ever outward but one day It will cause the stars to go the other way, Collapsing ever inward, we won’t be here, it wont be Hurt Our best and brightest figure that it’ll make an even

BIGGER BANG!

Australopithecus would really have been sick of us

Debating out while here they’re catching deer (we’re catching viruses) Religion or

astronomy, Encarta, Deuteronomy

It all started with the big bang!

Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology

IT all started with

the big bang! It all started

with the UNIVERS

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Sheldon

COOPERunivers 85

Oh GRAVITY, thou art a heartless

Bitch!

BAZZINGA!

rockpaperscissorslizardspock

“...I have a working knowledge of the entire universe and everything it contains...”

univers 59 ULTRACONDENSED

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678963 BOLD EXTENDED

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678965 BLOD

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678966 BOLD OBLIQUE

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678968 BLOD CONDENSED OBLIQUE

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678967 BOLD CONDENSED

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678973 BLACK ECTENDED

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678975 BLACK

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678976 BLACK OBLIQUE

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678983 EXTRA BLACK EXTENDED

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678983 EXTRA BLACK EXTENDED OBLIQUE

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678939 THIN ULTRA CONDENSED

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678945 LIGHT

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678946 LIGHT OBLIQUE

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678947 LIGHT CONDENSED

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678948 LIGHT CONDENSED OBLIQUE

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678949 LIGHT ULTRA CONDENSED

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678953 EXTENDED

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678955 ROMAN

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678956 OBLIQUE

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678957 CONDENSED

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678958 CONDENSED OBLIQUE

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 12345678959 ULTRA CONDENSED

UNIVERS: THE BEAUTY OF LETTER FORM IN 21 DIFFERENT WAYS.

CONDENSE, BOLD, OBLIQUE, LIGHT, ULTRA LIGHT, BLACK

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