The font was released by Linotype and Deberny & Peignot, French Foundry. The universe font is the first sans-serif font with a consistent and wide range of widths and heights.
A few other notable works of him include Frutiger font and Avenir font. The man behind making this successful typeface is Adrian Frutiger, a Swiss font designer who remained a big name in the 20th century in terms of typography.