Jakob Erbar
Credits
Background
Born in Düsseldorf in 1878 and died in Cologne, 1935.
He was a type designer and teacher and trained as a compositor in Düsseldorf and took courses in type with Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and Anna Simons.
Erbar designed Feder-Grotesk (1908), Erbar-Grotesk with the variants Lumina, Lux and Phosphor (1922“30), Koloss•Ģ (1923) and Candida® (1936).
Erbar