"Frutiger produced the original drawings for one of his first designs, the Ondine™ typeface, by cutting and pasting black paper shapes. “The black-and-white contrast soon came to play an important part in my professional life,” he says. “The contrast conveys the absolute construction of an image. Taking black away means adding white. In this way, the space between an R and an S becomes like a sculpture for me."
— Monotype Imaging: Type Designer Showcase: Adrian Frutiger : While we’re on the subject of type, this bit from a short bio on Adrian Frutiger caught my eye. It resonates with a segment from Helvetica in which they reference Swiss type design as focusing more on a letter’s counters and negative spaces rather than the letterform itself. This quote from Frutiger showcases how and why it appears that way—because he treats it like sculpture!
