Editing Univers (section)

==The Frutiger numbering system==
Adrian Frutiger designed his unique classification system to eliminate naming and specifying confusion. It was first used with Univers, and was adopted for use in the [[Frutiger (typeface)|Frutiger]], [[Avenir (typeface)|Avenir]], and [[Neue Helvetica]] typeface families.

The number used in a font is a concatenation of two numbers. The first digit defines weight, while the second defines width and whether it is oblique or not.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Suffix
|-
! Number ||1||2||3||4||5||6||7||8||9||10
|-
! Weight
| - ||Ultra Light||Thin||Light||Normal, Roman, or Regular||Medium||Bold||Heavy||Black||Ultra or Extra Black
|-
! Width and position
|Ultra Extended||Ultra Extended Oblique||Extended||Extended Oblique||Normal||Oblique||Condensed||Condensed Oblique||Ultra Condensed||-
|}

(note: [[oblique type|oblique]] is not strict [[italic type|italic]])

As an example, the number 56 denotes the ''normal weight'' (a first digit of 5) and an ''oblique style'' with the normal width (a second digit of 6).

Due to some typeface manufacturers’ failure to understand and implement the system correctly, however, things have actually become more confusing. To further complicate matters, the numbering system is not consistently applied to the Univers font family. In older publications, all oblique fonts have even-numbered 2nd values; but in digital versions, both odd and even 2nd values have been used on oblique fonts, but not in all font formats or weights. For example, Univers 55 Roman Oblique has both Windows menu names and PostScript full names as ''Univers LT 55 Oblique'' and ''Univers 56 Oblique'', but only for the Windows PostScript version of the font; however, in Univers 85 Extra Black Oblique, there is no font named Univers 86 in any format. Nevertheless, oblique Univers fonts always have even-numbered 2nd value.

Inconsistent usage aside, the syntax of 2nd value is also inconsistent with 1st value. Bigger 1st value implies the glyph of a given character uses more horizontal space, but it has opposite meaning in 2nd value.

===Linotype numbering system===
In Linotype Univers and Univers Next font family, a 3-number system is used. First numeral describes font weight, second numeral describes font width, third numeral describes position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.linotype.com/en/1813/linotypeunivers.html|title=Linotype Platinum Collection - Linotype Univers 3.0}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Suffix
|-
!Number||0||1||2||3||4||5||6||7||8||9
|-
! Weight
| -||Ultra Light||Thin||Light||Regular||Medium||Bold||Heavy||Black||Extra Black
|-
! Width
| -||Compressed||Condensed||Basic||Extended||-||-||-||-||-
|-
! Position
|Roman||Italic||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|}

Unlike the original Univers, tilted fonts in Linotype Univers and derivative font families have not been named 'oblique'.