About Friz Quadrata Volume
The original and first weight of Friz Quadrata was created in 1965 by Swiss designer Ernst Friz, who studied graphics in Zurich with Rudolf Bircher and Walter Koch. Friz Quadrata made its first international appearance when Visual Graphics Corporation released the design in the late 1960s as one of the winners of its International Typeface design competition. A few years later, ITC entered into an arrangement with VGC in which Victor Caruso worked with ITC to add a bold weight to Friz's original. Since its introduction by ITC in 1973, Friz Quadrata has suffered from a lack of an italic companion. In 1992 French designer Thierry Puyfoulhoux submitted his solution to the problem with two italic weights of Friz Quadrata. Puyfoulhoux studied calligraphy and typography at the Scriptorium of Toulouse with Bernard Arin, and at the Imprimerie Nationale (the Government Printing Office) in Paris under Jose Mendoza, another ITC typeface designer. Friz Quadrata is available in roman and bold weights with corresponding italics. |
