Jakob Erbar
Jakob Erbar (born August 2, 1878 in Düsseldorf , † July 1, 1935 in Cologne ) was a German typesetter , type designer and teacher .
Life
Jakob Erbar learned typesetter in Düsseldorf and attended typesetting courses there with Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and Anna Simons at the School of Applied Arts . Until 1908 he worked in the printing company M. DuMont Schauberg in Cologne as a commercial typesetter and then as a teacher at the municipal vocational school. In 1920 he was appointed to the Cologne School of Applied Arts by Martin Elsaesser and then - from 1926 until his death in 1935 - he was a technical teacher for typesetting and printing with Richard Riemerschmid at the Cologne Werkschulen (one of the predecessor institutions of today's Cologne University of Applied Sciences ).
Font designs
Between 1910 and 1936 Erbar created a number of fonts. As his most tester type design named after him "Erbar-serif" applies in several typefaces . The Erbar grotesque, designed in 1922, served the typographer Paul Renner as a model for the Futura . There were different letter variants in the casting program, including the common “a”, the “Antiqua form” or the constructed “grotesque form”.
Shortly after the Frankfurt type foundry Ludwig & Mayer had released the first three styles of the "Erbar-Grotesk" in the autumn of 1926, Willi Baumeister used them in his diverse work as a typographer and commercial artist in the context of the 1927 Werkbund exhibition "The Apartment" held in various locations in Stuttgart. (with the Weißenhofsiedlung in the north of the city) for the first time, this already in the composition of the memorandum of the exhibition written by Ludwig Hilberseimer , which was printed in December 1926 and immediately distributed.
"Candida", another font he developed , is now installed as standard in various word processing programs . All of Jakob Erbar's fonts were produced by the former Frankfurt type foundry Ludwig & Mayer , whose font collection was taken over by the Spanish company Neufville Digital in 1984 .
Directory of the published writings of Jakob Erbar
| Font name | First casting | Type foundry |
|---|---|---|
| Candida lean | 1936 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Candida fat | 1951 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Candida semi-fat | 1937 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Candida italic | 1937 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Candida italic bold | 1957 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Candida semi-fat | 1949 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Candida narrow-lean | 1957 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Candida Werkschrift | 1945 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar fracture | 1936 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar fracture bold | 1938 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Grotesk award | 19 ?? | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-grotesquely bold | 1926 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Grotesk semi-bold | 1929 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-grotesque powerful | 1926 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Grotesk italic bold | 1929 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Grotesk, strong italic | 1927 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-grotesquely easy | 1927 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Grotesk narrow half-bold | 1929 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Grotesk narrow and lean | 1929 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Grotesk Werkschrift | 1960 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Grotesk Russian Strong and fat | 1931 (around) | Linotype matrices |
| Erbar-Grotesk Russian Italic light and easy | 1931 (around) | Linotype matrices |
| Erbar law firm | 1913 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Mediæval | 1913 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Mediæval italic | 1914 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Mediæval in half bold | 1913 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Mediæval Italic in semi-bold | 1920 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Mediæval light bold | 1922 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Mediæval Uppercase light | 19 ?? | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar initials | 19 ?? | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar italic | 1913 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Uncials | 19 ?? | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Erbar-Uncial, semi-bold | 19 ?? | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Feather grotesque | 1909 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Spring-grotesque semi-bold | 1910 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Pen-Grotesque Italic | 1925 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Grotesquely light bold | 1923 (before) | Ludwig & Mayer |
| colossus | 1924 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| speaker | 1931 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Lucina | 1926 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| Lumina | 1928 | Ludwig & Mayer |
| lux | 1929 | Ludwig & Mayer |
Font styles of the Erbar-Grotesk
Light Erbar-Grotesk
Erbar-grotesque
Erbar-grotesque
Fat Erbar-Grotesk
Fat Erbar-Grotesk
Narrow lean Erbar-Grotesk
Schmalfette Erbar-Grotesk
Fonts
- with Friedrich Bartels: A commercial unit school for Cologne to promote the craft. Cologne 1919.
swell
- ↑ Linotype, Jakob Erbar, Works and Samples (see web links)
- ↑ Ulrich Stiehl: Erbar-Grotesk - A forgotten sans serif. Heidelberg 2006.
- ^ Wolfgang Kermer : Willi Baumeister - typography and advertising design . Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1989 ISBN 3-89322-145-X , pp. 71-82
- ↑ Handbook of Fonts. A compilation of the fonts of the type foundries of the German language, sorted by genre. Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1926 and addendum 1931/32
- ↑ VDS index (Association of German Type Foundries)
- ^ Font index according to DIN 16507, Ludwig & Mayer
literature
- Gunter Beissert: Jakob Erbar and the grotesque. In: Archives for the book trade and commercial graphics. Vol. 73, H. 12, enclosure.
- Willi Mengel: Jakob Erbar: type artist, teacher and school reformer. around 1956, OCLC 65844168 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jakob Erbar in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the Klingspor Museum about Jakob Erbar (PDF file; 393 kB)
- Font samples of the fonts developed by Jakob Erbar (English)
- Biographical notes about Jakob Erbar (English)
- Ulrich Stiehl: Erbar-Grotesk - A forgotten sans serif. PDF file, 152 kB
- Linotype, Jakob Erbar, Works and Samples
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Merciful, Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German typesetter, typographer and teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1935 |
| Place of death | Cologne |