I’ve been wondering who would revive the relatively unknown Stempel typeface, Information (and its predecessor Reform-Grotesk). Fortunately, it is Pierre Pané-Farré and Forgotten Shapes: https://forgotten-shapes.com/information

See also his deep research on the project, including the suggestion that Walter Käch was inspired by Reform: https://forgotten-shapes.com/information?article=reform-grotesk-and-information-2 This would mean the typeface is an unexpected part of Univers’s lineage.

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Forgotten Shapes

The assortment of commercially available fonts is in constant flux. Typeface design is inevitably informed by media-specific conditions and the aesthetic discourse of the day.