The first Grotesk typeface in history was the Akzidenz Grotesk, whose first weight was published in 1898 by Bauer&Co in Stuttgart and Berthod in Berlin. During the 1950s, the typeface was quite successful, especially in advertising, initially only in Europe. Akzidenz has inspired many Grotesk fonts, such as Record Gothic, Monotype Groteseque, Helvetica and Univers. In 1954, Adrian Frutiger began t