Designed by Eric Gill and released by the Monotype Corporation between 1928 and 1930,
Gill Sans is based on the typeface Edward Johnston, the innovative British letterer and teacher, designed in 1916 for the signage of the London Underground.
Gill’s alphabet is more classical in proportion and contains his signature flared capital R and eyeglass lowercase g.
With distinct roots in pen-written letters,
Gill Sans is classified as a humanist sans serif, making it very legible and readable in text and display work. The condensed, bold, and display versions are excellent for packaging or posters.
File Size: 1.55 MB
Tags: 1930s, bbc, british, canon, clean, elegant, english, geometric, headline, heavy, humanist, johnston, legible, popular, sans serif, some-spurs
Release date: December 3, 2007
You can use this font for:
- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
- Website publishing: create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
- PDFs: embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
- Video and broadcast: use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content and more
- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)
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