About UN-11
Introducing UN-11, a rare cut of the Swiss classic by Adrian Frutiger faithfully digitized and carefully re-engineered for today’s typographic universe.
In 1961, IBM unveiled the Selectric Typewriter, featuring a revolutionary type ‘golf ball’ that replaced the traditional typebar mechanism. To expand their font catalog and promote this new technology, IBM enlisted Adrian Frutiger to adapt his iconic Univers, modifying it to suit the machine’s specific constraints and metrics. The result was an alternate version of Univers with unit-based spacing, marking an exciting and distinct departure from conventional monospaced type. To Frutiger, the font’s charmingly uneven rhythm uniquely combined mechanical precision with a human touch.
Today, UN-11’s idiosyncrasies stand out in a world of polished interfaces, rounded corners, and total easing. Throughout history, versions of Univers have been adapted for various typesetting technologies, from letterpress to phototype to PostScript, but none with quite the same unique flair as this. UN-11 is finally available, finely tuned for contemporary print and screen environments.
Available Cuts
- Regular
- Italic
- Bold
Source Material
Type Specimen
Special Features
Typetester
Glyphs Overview
Letters
Figures
Latin Supplement and Extension
Ligatures
Stylistic Sets
Punctuation and Symbols
Case Sensitive Forms
Superscript and Subscript
Fractions and Ordinals
Currency and Mathematical Operators
Tabular Figures
Square Figures
Circled Letters
Roman Numbers
Arrows
OpenType Features
Case Sensitive Forms
[SIC] (PARENTHESES) {A,B}
RE: SUBJECT XLR-CABLE
« MERCI » ‹DANKE›
[SIC] (PARENTHESES) {A,B}
RE: SUBJECT XLR-CABLE
« MERCI » ‹DANKE›
Contextual Alternates
Stylistic Set 1
Tabular Figures
111 CHF
111 CHF
Superscript
Information
Technical Data
Encoding:Latin Extended
File Formats:OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Version:1.0
Language Support
Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Jju, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Meru, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Rejang, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Taroko, Teso, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Upper Sorbian, Vunjo, Walloon, Walser, Welsh, Western Frisian, Wolastoqey, Xhosa, Zulu