dT Jakob started as a revival by Gustavo Soares for Paul van der Laan’s class at the Type and Media Masters, in The Hague, NL – back in 2007. There are quite a few excellent geometric sans typefaces available, but we did want to make our contribution and have a fine geometric face to offer.
dT Jakob was born out of Erbar, by Jakob Erbar, one of the very first geometric sans, released in metal around 1926. Our goal was to make a versatile typeface, that handles display and text typography beautifully. To achieve that we designed a complete range of weights, matching italics and lots of OpenType Features.
We hope you enjoy it!
Opentype Features:
- Localized Forms
- Subscript
- Superscript
- Scientific Inferiors
- Localized Forms
- Numerator
- Denominator
- Fraction
- Lining Figures
- Oldstyle Figures
- Tabular Figures
- Case Sensitive
- Ligatures
- All Alternates (aka ss01)
- Straight Terminals (aka ss02)
- Geometric Figures (aka ss03)
- Punchy Quotation Marks (aka ss04)
- Traditional Ampersand (aka ss05)
- Angled Cut Plus Sign (aka ss06)
- Slim Question Mark (aka ss07)