

This typeface comes in a huge 52 styles and 10 weights from regular to Heavy and its matching italics. Nunito font is also another the closest font to the Avenir Next font. Separate Non-Latin products to support just the Arabic, Cyrillic, Georgian, Hebrew and Thai script are also available for those who do not need the full language support.After being released, many designers adopt this best due to its good alternatives to one of the highly used fonts Futura font. The respective 10 Italic styles do not support Arabic, Georgian and Thai, since Italic styles are unfamiliar in these scripts/languages. Avenir Next World contains 10 weights, from UltraLight to Heavy. Akira’s deep familiarity with existing iterations of the Frutiger designs, along with his understanding of the design philosophy of the man himself, made him uniquely suited to lead the creation of different language fonts.Īvenir Next World family, the most recent release from Monotype, is an expansive family of fonts that offers support for more than 150 languages and scripts that include Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian and Thai. Since then, Monotype expanded the typeface to accommodate more languages. The goal of the project was to take a beautifully designed sans and update it so that its technical standards surpass the status quo, leaving us with a truly superior sans family. In 2012, Akira Kobayashi worked alongside Avenir’s esteemed creator Adrian Frutiger to bring Avenir Next to life, as a new take on the classic Avenir. These nuances aid in legibility and give Avenir a harmonious and sensible appearance for both texts and headlines. But unlike Futura, Avenir is not purely geometric it has vertical strokes that are thicker than the horizontals, an “o” that is not a perfect circle, and shortened ascenders.


The word Avenir means “future” in French and hints that the typeface owes some of its interpretation to Futura. The original Avenir typeface was designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988, after years of having an interest in sans serif typefaces. Avenir Next World was designed by Adrian Frutiger, Akira Kobayashi, Anuthin Wongsunkakon, Yanek Iontef, Akaki Razmadze, Nadine Chahine, Monotype Studio, Toshi Omagari, Elena Papassissa and published by Linotype.
