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Re:Adrian Frutiger has died by amyjess on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @05:43PM (#10223379)
> Zapf died earlier this year, by the way.

Somehow, I missed that news.

Damn, the world of typography lost two of its biggest visionaries this summer alone.

I always preferred Zapf's fonts to Frutiger's by a wide margin (I always favor serif fonts over sans serifs), but they were both brilliant men, and typography won't be the same without either.

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Re:Adrian Frutiger has died by e15ctr0n on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @03:23PM (#10229123)
>> Zapf died earlier this year, by the way.

> Somehow, I missed that news.

I did submit the news to HN, but it received no attention, alas.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9692624

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Re:Adrian Frutiger has died by zeckalpha on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @09:25PM (#10224168)
Zapf has made some excellent sans serifs. Optima is likely the one you've seen the most, but there's URW Grotesk, too.
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