Frutiger® font
Frutiger is a humanist sans serif by Adrian Frutiger, first issued by Linotype in 1976. It isn’t free: it is a paid typeface, sold by Linotype. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Not measured against Frutiger: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Frutiger or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Frutiger
- Designed by
- Adrian FrutigerSource: Wikipedia: Frutiger (typeface)
- First issued
- Linotype, 1976Source: Wikipedia: Frutiger (typeface)
- Class
- Humanist sans serifSource: Wikipedia: Frutiger (typeface)
- Comes with
- Not with Windows 11, macOS Tahoe or Microsoft 365, by their own listsSource: Microsoft: Windows 11 font list , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe , Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Linotype
- Trademark
- Frutiger is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
- Also
- It grew out of the lettering Adrian Frutiger drew for the signs of Charles de Gaulle Airport.Source: Wikipedia: Frutiger (typeface)
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
Frutiger® is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. FontKind is not affiliated with Monotype Imaging Inc., and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Frutiger
Is Frutiger free?
No. Frutiger is a paid typeface, sold by Linotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Frutiger?
Frutiger was designed by Adrian Frutiger, and first issued by Linotype in 1976.
Can I use Frutiger in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Frutiger. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Frutiger isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Lato, Fira Sans and Source Sans 3 are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Frutiger?
FontKind hasn’t measured Frutiger: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Lato, Fira Sans and Source Sans 3 are humanist sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Frutiger.