Jakob Erbar

Jakob Erbar
Born(1878-02-08)8 February 1878
Düsseldorf, Germany
Died7 January 1935(1935-01-07) (aged 56)
Cologne, Germany
NationalityGerman
Known fortypography
Notable workErbar series

Jakob Erbar (8 February 1878 – 7 January 1935) was a German professor of graphic design and a type designer. Erbar trained as a typesetter for the Dumont-Schauberg Printing Works before studying under Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Anna Simons. Erbar went on to teach in 1908 at the Städtischen Berufsschule and from 1919 to his death at the Kölner Werkschule.[1] His seminal Erbar series was one of the first geometric sans-serif typefaces, predating both Paul Renner's Futura and Rudolf Koch's Kabel by some five years.[2]

  1. ^ Friedl, Ott, and Stein, p. 210.
  2. ^ Macmillsn, Niel.An A-Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press, 2006 (pg. 78)