The Avenir font is a sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988 and released by Linotype GmbH. The font was intended to be a more humanist counterpart to the geometric sans-serifs popular at the time. The font is characterized by its relatively wide letterforms and subtle, curved features. It is one of the last typefaces Frutiger designed before his death in 1998. The name of the typ…