Talk:Univers

UNICEF Usage
UNICEF uses Univers typeface in their logo http://www.unicef.org/tfyrmacedonia/Brand_ToolKit_EN_Jan2011(1).pdf See page 24 --Manifestdestiny (talk) 04:13, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

CH Sans
Swiss International Air Lines does not use Univers. It uses CH Sans by Freda Sack. It is a redesign of Univers, meeting aspects of more recent Typefaces in order to make it look more dynamic. Especially the special symbols like the "&" have been designed from scratch in this edition. I have adapted the Text in order to highlight this. Feel free to improve the text, as i'm not perfectly fluent in Writing Style...

I also removed the mention that Swiss is the successor of SWISS as this allegation would only be true from a de facto aspect. De jure, it is a successor of Crossair.

--sikkd 19:23, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation of Univers
I'd like to see a source for the pronunciation of Univers. I've never heard it pronounced as such. jr98664 02:56, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

www.linotype.com SPAM removed
Removed both these links:


 * Weights of the Univers type family at Linotype.com
 * Weights of the Linotype Univers type.

They lead to products... 87.203.147.71 03:38, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Univers on Apple keyboards
Apple started switching away from Univers for their keyboards long before August 2007. I own a ’2006 MacBook Pro and a ’2002 iBook which both feature VAG Rounded (or whatever it is exactly). I think the switch must have happened with the introduction of the white iBook in May 2001 and the Aluminium PowerBook in January 2003, while the desktop keyboards indeed kept Univers until August 2007.

Official sans-serif typeface adopted by 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics
In the official reports of the 1972 & 1976 Summer Olympics Games the organisation committee choose for the image and documents this typeface.--Nekko09 (talk) 00:25, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Mistake in image
The "Ee Rr" in italics in the picture are in Futura, not Univers. 141.92.129.41 (talk) 10:43, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Egad, you're right! This should really not have lasted five years without correction. The original designer seems to be no longer active, so I'm working on an updated image but will contact them. I suppose this confirms the theory that nobody looks closely at sans-serif obliques. I don't think this is a prank as the same author did the Futura sample soon before and probably didn't replace all the text. Blythwood (talk) 06:43, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Removal of disambiguation for Univers/Universe
In this edit, removes the disambiguation line ("Not to be confused with Universe") saying "are people really going to get confused by this?"

Personally, I'd say they were very similar; there's enough possibility of a typo, or someone whose first language isn't English- or simply isn't a great speller- getting it wrong.

(It's not about whether someone is likely to confuse the universe with a typeface- obviously they aren't(!)- it's about whether someone is going to be looking for a page on the universe and ending up confused as to why they're reading about a typeface, with no explanation!)

It wasn't exactly intrusive; I don't see how it was helpful to remove it, so I've restored it. Ubcule (talk) 00:32, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

URW++ U001 isn't open source
Despite claims from the article that the font has been open-sourced, the license in which the font is (was?) available is Aladdin Free Public License, which according to its article hasn't been approved by the FSF or the OSI as it doesn't allow commercial distribution and limits distribution with modifications. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Espectalll (talk • contribs) 11:53, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Alright, the font has been renamed or replaced and is now called URW Classic Sans, which is inside the GhostPDL source code… while that package is open source under the GPL, there's an exception listed at  where it mentions the fonts being "NOT FREE SOFTWARE" and licensed under the AFPL. Espectalll (talk) 12:11, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Trying to contact Artifex Software for more information Espectalll (talk) 12:30, 3 January 2019 (UTC)


 * , oh dear, thanks for pointing this out, that wasn't well-phrased. I've corrected the article and upgraded the phrasing and citations. Blythwood (talk) 21:56, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

The glyph 7 is misrepresented
"7" glyph in the comparisons snapshot is not Univers 55. It should have a flat top-right corner.