
With so many options to choose from, what do you do? That’s how powerful a font can be! Who knew?Īnd in case you’re wondering what I mean by font, that’s the typeface or style of lettering. The fact is, using the wrong font type and size can either help your résumé get through the computer ATS and appease the human reader or it will get it trashed before it even had a chance. Avenir Next World contains 10 weights, from UltraLight to ExtraBlack.You’ve got about 1000 things to worry about with your job search, the last thing you need is to worry about is what kind of fonts you should use in your résumé. Akira’s deep familiarity with existing iterations of the Frutiger designs, along with his understanding of the design philosophy of the man himself, made him uniquely suited to lead the creation of different language fonts.Īvenir Next World family, the most recent release from Monotype, is an expansive family of fonts that offers support for more than 150 languages and scripts that include Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian and Thai. Since then, Monotype expanded the typeface to accommodate more languages. The goal of the project was to take a beautifully designed sans and update it so that its technical standards surpass the status quo, leaving us with a truly superior sans family. In 2012, Akira Kobayashi worked alongside Avenir’s esteemed creator Adrian Frutiger to bring Avenir Next to life, as a new take on the classic Avenir. These nuances aid in legibility and give Avenir a harmonious and sensible appearance for both texts and headlines. But unlike Futura, Avenir is not purely geometric it has vertical strokes that are thicker than the horizontals, an “o” that is not a perfect circle, and shortened ascenders. The word Avenir means “future” in French and hints that the typeface owes some of its interpretation to Futura. The original Avenir typeface was designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988, after years of having an interest in sans serif typefaces. The font is currently #29 in Hot New Fonts. Avenir Next Thai contains 20 styles and family package options. Avenir Next Thai was designed by Adrian Frutiger, Akira Kobayashi, Anuthin Wongsunkakon, Monotype Studio and published by Linotype.
