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| | Typeface of the month: Gill Sans : Journal : Mark Boulton Information design |
 | | Gill Sans was designed by Eric Gill in the 1920's and issued by Monotype in 1928 to 1930. | | | I can’t seem to find any visuals at the moment, but I believe I read (and saw) in Gill’s essay on typography that he originally intended for Gill Sans to be much different than where it ended up. | | | It should be noted that gills sans takes its form in a large part from the earlier humanist forms along with the more modern geometric forms -it is this mix of history and modernity that is just one of the many reasons that makes gill so special in many peoples hearts. |
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http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/typeface_of_the_month_gill_sans
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| | : : Speak Up › Comment on Saab or Dodgeball? : : |
| | When Gill Sans and I first started dating I was really smitten with her. | | | At the first ad agency I worked for, their main client was Travelodge and Gill Sans was one of 4 typefaces that were used the others being Caecilla (which works beautifully with Gill Sans), Clearface and Franklin Gothic. | | | Gill Sans is not the typeface for the London Underground. |
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http://www.underconsideration.com/mt-static/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2029
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| | Monotype: Gill Sans |
| | Gill Sans reflects Eric Gill& craftsmanship ethos, even though it was developed by “industrialized” methods-the result is an entire family of true typographic gems. | | | Because the characters of the Gill Sans alphabet are based on classic roman letterforms and not geometric shapes, they are remarkably legible. | | | All the related fonts of the Gill Sans family work well together, but they are not “mechanically” produced from a single design in the way that Helvetica and Univers are. |
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http://www.monotypefonts.com/Library/HiddenGems.asp?show=gillsans
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| | Eric Gill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Apart from Gill Sans, which is his most famous creation and lasting legacy to typography, Gill also designed the typefaces Perpetua (1926), Golden Cockerel Roman (1929), Solus (1929), Joanna (based on work by Granjon; 1930–31), Aries (1932), Floriated Capitals (1932), Bunyan (1934), Pilgrim (recut version of Bunyan; 1953) and Jubilee (1934). | | | This was followed by the Gill Sans typeface, based on the sans-serif lettering originally designed by Johnston for London Underground. | | | Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (February 22, 1882– November 17, 1940) was a British sculptor, typographer and engraver. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill
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| | Monotype: Gill Sans |
| | Gill Sans reflects Eric Gill’s craftsmanship ethos, even though it was developed by “industrialized” methods-the result is an entire family of true typographic gems. | | | Because the characters of the Gill Sans alphabet are based on classic roman letterforms and not geometric shapes, they are remarkably legible. | | | All the related fonts of the Gill Sans family work well together, but they are not “mechanically” produced from a single design in the way that Helvetica and Univers are. |
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http://www.monotypefonts.com/Library/HiddenGems.asp?show=gillsans
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| | .eric gill |
| | Gill Sans is the first highly influential sans-serif typeface. | | | Eric Gill was a sculptor, engraver, typographer, painter and artist. | | | Gill spent much of his life with established religious and artistic communities, and converted to Catholicism in mid-life. |
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http://www.frostdigital.com/content/gill.html
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| | .eric gill |
| | Gill Sans is the first highly influential sans-serif typeface. | | | Released by the Monotype Corporation, Gill Sans is based on the letterforms produced by the innovative British letterer Edward Johnston. | | | Gill was present at the meeting between Johnston and Frank Pick, from the London Passenger Transport Board in 1915 with Johnston when the typeface was being commissioned. |
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http://www.frostdigital.com/content/gill.html
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| | About Us: Summer 1999 Typeface Collection from International Typeface Corporation Includes Six New Typefaces |
| | The young Eric Gill had studied under Johnston at the London College of Printing, worked on the Underground project with him, and followed many of the same principles in developing his own sans serif typeface. | | | Farey and Dawson, working from their studio in Londons Clerkenwell, wanted to create a type family that was neither a museum piece nor a bastardization, and that would provide an alternative of the same school to the omnipresent Gill Sans. | | | Johnstons block letter bears an obvious resemblance to Gill Sans, the highly successful type family developed by Monotype in the 1920s. |
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http://www.monotypeimaging.com/about/pr_display_new.asp?year=1999&pr=152
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| | Gill Sans |
| | GillSans has a special feel for me because it was taught as kind of writing I had to do in my Technical Drawing classes in secondary school in England. | | | Does anyone know what face it is? I seem to remember reading somewhere that it is a fairly standard sans face with the 'a' swapped out in favour of a Gill style 'a'. | | | It is a shame that the Gill Sans that Adobe shows on the referenced page doesn't have a bowl for the lower case L (ell). |
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http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?GillSans
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| | Gill Sans |
| | Gill Sans is a sans-serif typeface created by Eric Gill and published by the Monotype Corporation 1928 and 1930. | | | Based on Edward Johnston's font for London Underground Gill Sans is widely admired for quiet gracefulness and versatility. | | | Since 1997 the BBC have used Gill Sans as the for the lettering in it's logo and derivative uses such as the logos of services. |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Gill_Sans
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| | Designer Trading Cards - Eric Gill |
| | Gill Sans and Perpetua were both big commercial successes for Monotype, much of which was due to the publicity generated for them by the corporation's publicity manager, Beatrice Warde, who was a close friend of both Morison and Gill. | | | Gill Sans, as the font became titled, was eventually released in a large number of different weights and styles. | | | Eric Gill, (1882-1940) was a British stonecarver, sculptor and type designer. |
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http://www.designertradingcards.com/eric-gill.htm
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| | Eric Gill designed Gill Sans in 1927, Perpetua and the companion italic Felicity in 1925, and Joanna in 1930. | | | Eric Gill (1882-1940) was an English engraver, sculptor, typographer, and writer who lived and worked in and near London. | | | To sculptors, Gill is known for his many sculptures and memorials. |
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http://www.nd.edu/~jsherman/gill/ndCollection.html
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| | Connare: Art, design & typography: essays: W. A. Dwiggins |
| | Both crafts can be seen in Johnston's typeface and his student Eric Gill's Gill Sans (1928)[3]. | | | Dwiggins' humanistic sans serif is much more successful than Goudy's Sans Serif since Dwiggins created forms that were based in the grotesque sans serif style but added the pen influence and interesting angular joins. | | | In his most successful writing, Layout in Advertising (1928), Dwiggins criticized the trend of the day of sans serif typefaces. |
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http://www.connare.com/essays.htm
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| | Linotype Fonts: Gill Display Compressed font |
| | The successful Gill Sans® was designed by the English artist and type designer Eric Gill and issued by Monotype in 1928 to 1930. | | | Gill Sans is a humanist sans serif with some geometric touches in its structures. | | | The roots of Gill Sans can be traced to the typeface that Gill's teacher, Edward Johnston, designed for the signage of the London Underground Railway in 1918. |
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http://www.paratype.com/fstore/lfont-736_Gill+Display+Compressed.htm
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| | BBC Wales - History Hunters - Eric Gill |
| | Of all the 11 typefaces that he designed, Gill Sans is his most famous; it is a clear modern type and became the letter of the railways - appearing on their signs, engine plates, and timetables. | | | And now, at the heart of the new BBC logo identity, is the typeface Gill Sans. | | | Arts and Crafts artist Eric Gill set up a self-sufficent religious community in Capel-Y-Ffin |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/historyhunters/locations/pages/6_3_eric.shtml
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| | Eric Gill |
| | Of all the 11 typefaces that he designed, Gill Sans is his most famous; it is a clear modern type and became the letter of the railways - appearing on their signs, engine plates, and timetables. | | | Gill was born in Brighton, the son of non-conformist minister. | | | He was profoundly influenced by Johnston's dedicated approach to work and decided to join the world of the Arts and Crafts. |
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http://www.identifont.com/show?12W
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| | Bookshelved Wiki: EdwardJohnston |
| | EricGill worked with Johnston, and Gill Sans shows Johnston's influence. | | | Gill's and Johnston's typefaces all have at their heart the shapes formed by a broad-edged pen. | | | Johnston was commissioned to design a new face for London Transport, which he did in 1916. |
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http://bookshelved.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EdwardJohnston
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| | Uruguayan typography |
| | His fonts show a strong influence by Eric Gill: Hamlet-Type (1912-27), Imprint-Antiqua (with Gerard Meynell and J. Mason, 1913), Johnston Sans Serif (1916). | | | In 1916, he makes a typeface for the London Underground (helped by Eric Gill). | | | This Montevideo-based type designer created the large x-height sans family Nuñez. |
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http://www-cgrl.cs.mcgill.ca/%7Eluc/uruguay.html
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| | Gill, (Arthur) Eric (Rowton) |
| | He designed the typefaces Perpetua in 1925 and Gill Sans (without serifs) in 1927, and created monumental stone sculptures with clean, simplified outlines, such as Prospero and Ariel (1929–31) on Broadcasting House, London. | | | A keen advocate of craft skill in an age of mass production, Gill was a leader in the revival of interest in lettering and book design. | | | He studied lettering at the Central School of Art in London, and began his career carving inscriptions on tombstones. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0001500.html
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| | Bliss Fonts + Typefaces: Bliss Font + Bliss Typeface UK |
| | Eric Gill, a friend and collaborator of Johnston, draws heavily on Johnston’s example for his own Gill Sans of c.1928. | | | In contrast to the nineteenth century tradition of grotesque sans serifs, in which the proportions of the capitals tend to be even, the proportions of Bliss have been influenced by the Roman square capital resulting in a varied width to their forms. | | | One of Johnston’s ideas was a belief that a block sans serif form could be made more harmonious and acceptable if it were derived from the proportions of the Roman square capital letter. |
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http://www.typography.net/type/bliss.htm
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| | Seminar 2004 new |
| | Seeing slides of Miles’s early drawings for the Post Office’s distinctive corporate image, I realised that Gill’s and Johnston’s sans faces would have been conceived in the same way: all three alphabets were initially used for signs and are still in use in some form today. | | | A pivotal balance was struck by the all-embracing practice and character of Ieuan Rees, whose large-scale blackboard calligraphy recalled Johnston’s famous demonstrations at Lethaby’s Central School of Arts and Crafts. | | | Looking at Johnston’s headstone in Ditchling churchyard before leaving, I was reminded that he died in the same year as the D-Day landings, which were being commemorated the same weekend. |
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http://www.ejf.org.uk/seminar2004new.html
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| | FontsNOW! ITC Fonts - Download PostScript and True Type Fonts |
| | Early examples are Edward Johnston’s design for the London Underground, and Eric Gill& Gill Sans. | | | These were followed by Jan van Krimpen’s Romulus Sans, Frederic Goudy’s Goudy Sans, Hermann Zapf’s Optima™, Hans Meier’s Syntax™ and Adrian Frutiger’s Frutiger™. | | | But other aspects of ITC Stone Sans are more closely aligned to the gothics and grotesques, a tradition that accounts for the largest portion of sans serif designs. |
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http://www.itcfonts.com/fonts/whatsnew_fonts.asp?nCo=AFMT&Newrel=mar_05&disp=stone
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| | Corinthian Bold Condensed Font - Fonts.com |
| | Created by Letraset Type Director Colin Brignall, this clean-cut, monolineal sans serif typeface was inspired by Edward Johnston's Railway Type and Eric Gill's Gill Sans typefaces. | | | Would you like to try a new search or proceed to shopping cart for checkout? |
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http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detail.htm?pid=203794&ovmkt=JK0U0JDQ41GISCA7JS1RID2DCS
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| | BBC - h2g2 - Life and Times of the London Underground Map - A673517 |
| | In 1916 after collaboration with Eric Gill (he of Gill Sans font fame), the Johnston Sans Serif font was produced. | | | A few minor modifications later and we have the Johnston Underground Font which is still used on all London Underground maps, stations, posters and materials today. | | | Edward Johnston - designer of the London Underground Font |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A673517
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| | Sans |
| | Gill Sans Gill Sans is a London Underground, Gill Sans is widely admired for its quiet gracefulness and versatility. | | | Johnston Sans Johnston Sans is a London Underground. | | | Nulle terre sans seigneur In army) for the right to receive land from the sovereign. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/sans.html
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| | creativepro.com - dot-font: Not Your Father's Sans Serif |
| | , which is very similar to the Johnston letter in the roman (Gill had worked with Johnston) but also has a real italic. | | | , which he created in the 1950s, is often called a humanist sans serif, even though it's based not on handwriting but on the lettering carved into the floor of the church of Santa Croce in Florence. | | | Johnston's inspiration was certainly calligraphic, but his typeface was designed for signage, and his capitals are based squarely on the ancient Roman |
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http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/17185.html
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| | Post-Industrial Type |
| | Other sans faces emphasize geometric forms with more classical aspects such as Gill Sans®, FF Scala Sans™ and recently ITC Johnston™, a revival of Edward Johnston’s sans types that were developed into signage for the London Underground Railway in 1916. | | | Although the first sans design appeared in an 1816 specimen book of William Caslon IV in England, it wasn’t until the early part of the 20th century that this style first became widely used. | | | Some of these faces such as Erbar®, Futura® and sans faces comprising European “Grotesques” (so named by the English who thought they were ugly) have a strong geometric and industrial emphasis. |
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http://www.commarts.com/CA/featype_d/industrial/inside/01.html
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| | Emigre Fonts: Priori |
| | It is inspired by the work of famous British typographers, such as Eric Gill and Edward Johnston. | | | Preview & Order: Priori Sans Regular Small Caps and Alternate | | | Like many of Barnbrook's typeface designs, Priori is based on his interest in British typography of the early 20th century. |
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http://www.emigre.com/EF.php?fid=197
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| | Gill Sans - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Gill Sans |
| | Gill Sans is a sans-serif typeface created by Eric Gill and published by the Monotype Corporation between 1928 and 1930. | | | Since 1997 the BBC has used Gill Sans as the font for the lettering in its logo, and many derivative uses such as the logos of individual services. | | | Based on Edward Johnston's font for the London Underground, Gill Sans is widely admired for its quiet gracefulness and versatility. |
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http://www.encyclopedia-glossary.com/en/Gill-Sans.html
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Topic: Gill Sans