Maxitype: TELETEXT

While consulting the extensive Frutiger archive at the Museum für Gestaltung’s Graphics Collection in Zürich, Maximage’s interest was piqued by a mysterious bundle named [Caractères TVP / Teletext]. The folder contained a large quantity of sheets featuring pixel letters drawn by hand onto a 16×16 xeroxed grid. Its matrices had an unusual ratio of 1:2 which created narrow vertical proportions. The folder also contained various optical correction tests, alternative glyphs and even attempts to simulate the effect of screen glow on the typeface. Every single piece of paper punctiliously bore the refrain of Frutiger’s initials — AF — which gave it the air of a quality-control stamp by the master.