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title: "Typefaces designed in the 1970s"
description: "2 typefaces first cut in the 1970s, who drew each one, and what a design using it reads as today. Plus what came before and after."
url: https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1970s/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Typefaces designed in the 1970s

2 typefaces first released in the 1970s, in order.

| Typeface | Year | Designer | Kind | What it signals now |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frutiger | 1976 | Adrian Frutiger | Sans-serif | Wayfinding. Airports, hospitals, road signs, anything you read while moving. |
| Bell Centennial | 1978 | Matthew Carter | Sans-serif | A phone book. Extreme constraint made visible. |

- [Frutiger](https://atoneplace.net/font/frutiger/) — Adrian Frutiger, 1976
- [Bell Centennial](https://atoneplace.net/font/bell-centennial/) — Matthew Carter, 1978

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