Spans four weights with italics. In 1981, the family was completed with a Bold Outline [Reichardt/Hoefer].

“Icone is one of a trio of innovative types—the others being Iridium (1972) and Breughel (1978)—that Frutiger designed in the 1970s as part of his exploration of what was possible once type was no longer bound by the restrictions of metal casting and composing.” [Shaw]

Frutiger's intention was to create a design that could be modified by computer, through extreme slanting, morphing or changing stroke width, without seeming as if it had been distorted [Osterer & Stamm 2008].