Gustav Jäger (font designer)
Gustav Jäger (* 1925 ; † July 2010 ) was a German type designer .
Life
Gustav Jäger studied at the Offenbach am Main University of Design and then initially worked at Bauer's type foundry , where he designed various fonts based on the principles of Konrad Friedrich Bauer and Walter Baum . Baum encouraged him in the 1970s to design contemporary advertising fonts for H. Berthold AG . Then Jäger developed numerous fonts for typesetting .
In 1982 Jäger designed the Catullus font , which was used for the Google logo from May 31, 1999 to August 31, 2015 .
Web links
- Linotype : Short biography of Gustav Jäger
- Klingspor Museum for international book and script art (PDF; 319 kB): Overview of the fonts designed by Jäger
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hunter, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jaeger, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German type designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1925 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2010 |