Akira Kobayashi
In the late 1990s, Frutiger began collaborating on refining and expanding his most famous Univers, Frutiger, and families. The new projects took advantage of improved digital production methods to create a wider range of styles and improved hinting for onscreen display. Univers was reissued as Linotype Univers with sixty-three variants; Frutiger was reissued as Frutiger Next with additional weights. Collaborating with Linotype designer Akira Kobayashi, Frutiger expanded the font family with light weights, heavy weights, and a condensed version that were released as the Next font. Frutiger described the process of restoring Univers as a "personal gift."