Avenir (typeface) - Avenir Next

Avenir Next

In 2004, Frutiger, together with Linotype in-house type designer Akira Kobayashi, reworked the Avenir family to address on-screen display issues. The result was titled Avenir Next.

Initial release of the typeface family was increased to 24 fonts: 6 weights, each with a roman and italic version, in 2 widths: normal and condensed. Frutiger's numbering system was abandoned in favor of more conventional weight names. The glyph set was expanded to include small caps, old style figures, subscripts and superscripts, ligatures.

2 extra font weights (light, thin) are added to the widest font width (total 4 fonts) during the release of Avenir Next W1G, for a total of 28 fonts.

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