Otto Erler

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Otto Erler German punchcutter, b. 1890, Leipzig, d. 1965, Leipzig. He worked for Brüder Butter in Dresden in 1921, and after that, until 1946, at Schelter & Giesecke. In 1946, he joined VEB Polygraph und from 1951 until 1957, he worked for VEB Typoart. After that, he joined the Institut für Buchgestaltung at the Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst. The typeface Erler Versalien (1953, Herbert Thannhaeuser) is named after him. A digital version of it is called Missale Incana (2004, Andreas Seidel).	EXTERNAL LINKS Otto Erler MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ German type scene ⦿

file name: Andreas Seidel Missale Incana 2004 after Herbert Thannhaeuser Erler Versalien 1953

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