Jan Erasmus

Jan ErasmusInformation about the font designer Jan Erasmus and his typefaces.

Jan Erasmus was born in Kroonstad, South Africa, in 1952, and studied Graphic Design in 1972-1975 at Johannesburg Technikon and at Philadelphia College of Art during 1977-1978.

After working for a few years he started a partnership in Graphic Design, Pinpoint Graphics, in Johannesburg. After 7 years he left to set up his own Graphic Design studio in 1990 called CyberGraphics.

He still lives in Kensington, Johannesburg with his son and 2 Burmese cats. Among his most well know typeface designs are Thornface, Transition, Nando's, and the FIFA World Cup 2010 font Menyaka. He has also done a few proprietary typeface design for consistency in Brand personality expression for agencies.

[Jan Erasmus, January 2007]

Web site: http://www.cybergraphics.bz/

Fonts designed by Jan Erasmus:

Lalibela
Lalibela Bold
Lalibela Bold Alternate
Pixeluxe Binary
Pixeluxe Death
Pixeluxe Eco
Pixeluxe Love
Pixeluxe Peace

Pixeluxe Soccer
Thornface Extra Sharp
Thornface Semi Sharp
Thornface Sharp
Transition
Transition Lining
Transition SC

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Most popular font

The designer's most popular typeface, as selected by Identifont users over the past seven days:

Lalibela Bold