Erbar® Font Family

Erbar® Light Condensed (Assorted Collection) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 39.00

Erbar® Bold Condensed (Assorted Collection) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 39.00

Erbar Complete Family Pack (Assorted Collection) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 86.00

Jakob Erbar – born 2. 8. 1878 in Düsseldorf, Germany, died 1. 7. 1935 in Cologne, Germany – type designer, teacher. Trained as a compositor in Düsseldorf and took courses in type with Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Anna Simons. Job typesetter for the Dumont-Schauberg printing works in Cologne. 1908: teaches at the Städtische Berufsschule. 1919–35: teaches at the Kölner Werkschule. Fonts: Feder-Grotesk (1908), Erbar-Grotesk with the variants Lumina, Lux and Phosphor (1922–30), Koloss™ (1923), [...]

Erbar, created from 1922 onward by the German designer Jakob Erbar, was one of the first and most popular of the new gemoetric sans serifs of the 1920s. Revived by Linotype during the late 1940s and 1950s, the more condensed versions of Erbar became mainstays in newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic. Today Avenir Next and Futura are more popular, and available in a wider range of weights and versions. Another sans serif typeface from the 1920s and 30s that is little know outside of the newspaper world, but worth a second glance, is W. A. Dwiggins' Metro family (Metrolite, Metromedium, and Metroblack).