On Erbar and Early Geometric Sans Serifs

Indra Kupferschmid | October 18, 2016

Before Helvetica and Futura defined modern typography, Jakob Erbar’s Erbar-Grotesk offered an early vision of the geometric sans serif—balancing modern clarity with subtle traces of tradition.
On Erbar and Early Geometric Sans Serifs

Seeds planted for variable fonts @ TypoLabs Berlin

Watched talk at TypoLabs in Berlin by Behdad Esfabod "Open Type GX : Bringing Font Variations to Open Type" showing proto-variable fonts
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Trying different x-heights

Erbar_Grotesk_macht_stark_1.5_alt_xheight.otf 🅢 (was already trying different x-heights on the first day of this project!)
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Early sketching

Erbar_trace_1.1.ai 🅢
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Initial research

Emailing with Indra about iconic pre-digital sans serifs 🅢
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