Avenir
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Font Families
Light
Light Oblique
Book
Roman
Book Oblique
Oblique
Medium Medium Oblique Black Black Oblique Heavy Heavy Oblique
Avenir History
Avenir was originally released in 1988 with three weights, each with a roman and oblique version, all using Frutiger's two-digit weight and width convention for names. The typeface family was later expand to six weigths, each with a roman and oblique version. Together with Akira Kobayashi, Frutiger completely reworked the Avenir family in 2004.
The original Avenir family is made up or designs with gradual weight changes in order to satisfy the needs of specific text applications. While the book and light weights have similar stroke widths, the book weight is well suited for body text, whereas the light was designed for captions and sunhead texts.