Comments: October 1 2009 Called the “,” the sixth installment in our ‘Know your type’ series is the humanist sans-serif. Influenced by the ‘Underground’ The history of Gill Sans stems from ’s iconic typeface,, designed for the in 1913., who had studied under Johnston at London’s, later became a friend and apprentice—and even had a small role assisting in creation of the proprietary typeface. Left: Johnston Sans printing blocks now on display at the, 1913 (Photo: Kaihsu Tai, Wikipedia); Right: London's Underground roundel set in Johnston Sans (often confused as Gill Sans), designed 1919 (Photo: danorbit, Flickr) Creating a ‘fool-proof’ typeface Not completely satisfied with Johnston’s work, Gill set out to create the perfect, legible typeface. The first notable attempt to work out the norm for plain letters was made by Mr Edward Johnston when he designed the sans-serif letter for the London Underground Railways. Some of these letters are not entirely satisfactory, especially when it is remembered that, for such a purpose, an alphabet should be as near as possible ‘fool-proof’ as the philosophers would say—nothing should be left to the imagination of the sign-writer or enamel-plate maker.
-Eric Gill,, published 1931 Drawing heavily on Johnston’s work, Gill first experimented with his ‘improvements’ in 1926 when he hand-painted lettering for a bookshop sign in his hometown, Bristol. Gill also sketched a guide for the bookshop owner,, who later published the work in. The alphabet, which at the time only contained uppercase letters, was noticed by for its commercial potential. A advisor, Morison commissioned Gill to develop a complete font family to compete with the sans-serif designs released by German foundries fueled by the overwhelming success of. The font was released commercially by Monotype in 1928 as Gill Sans.
Left: Eric Gill as a young man, 1908 (Photo: ); Right: Drawing by Eric Gill, 1933 (Photo: via ) While his personal life was later discovered to be rather, Eric Gill (born 1882 as Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, died 1940) was an important British,, and typeface designer who also gave us and (named after one of his daughters), among. The Helvetica of England Gill Sans rose to popularity in 1929 when it became the standard typeface for the (LNER), appearing on everything from to. Left: LNER ’s nameplate set in Gill Sans, built 1937 (Photo: Crowcombe Al, Flickr); Right: The Kraken Wakes published by Penguin Books in 1955 (Photo: duncan, Flickr) The typeface was used in 1935 by designer on the now iconic, putting Gill Sans on bookshelves around the world. Many other notable companies (particularly in England) adopted Gill Sans as a corporate typeface by the mid-1900’s, including the, British Railways, and ultimately Monotype themselves—making the typeface Monotype's fifth best seller of the twentieth century. A diverse family Originally released as metal type, over 36 derivatives emerged between 1929 and 1932—many of which were created by the Monotype drawing office (with input by Gill).
The typeface is renowned for its between, as they were not mechanically produced from a single design (opposed to others like ). Each weight retains a distinct character of its own. The light font, with its heavily kerned ‘f’ and tall ‘t’, has an open, elegant look. The regular font has a more compact and muscular appearance, with its flat-bottomed ‘d’, flat-topped ‘p’ and ‘q’, and short, triangular-topped ‘t.’ The bold font tends to echo the softer, more open style of the light, while the extra bold and ultra bold have their own vivid personalities. -Monotype Imaging Inc, The Gill Sans family ranges from to the exaggerated —“because every advertisement has to try and shout down its neighbors,” Gill explains in Essay on Typography. Gill’s lettering is based on classic roman proportions, which give the sans-serif a less mechanical feel than its geometric. The typeface was initially recommended for advertising and headline use, but as the public got used to reading sans-serif, Gill Sans turned out to work just as well for body text.
Gill Sans today Today over Gill Sans designs are available digitally, with mainstream reach thanks to its inclusion on and. It can be seen everywhere, used (or ) on everything from corporate logos to movie posters—one that has the unusual Ultra Bold.
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Meanwhile, the legendary Johnston Sans typeface became available commercially for the first time in 1997 as ’s, licensed by the London Transport Museum. A variant called was also released 1999. Usage Also see: • • • • •.
Description PT Sans is a type family of universal use. It consists of 8 styles: regular and bold weights with corresponding italics form a standard computer font family; two narrow styles (regular and bold) are intended for documents that require tight set; two caption styles (regular and bold) are for texts of small point sizes. The design combines traditional conservative appearance with modern trends of humanistic sans serif and characterized by enhanced legibility. These features beside conventional use in business applications and printed stuff made the fonts quite useable for direction and guide signs, schemes, screens of information kiosks and other objects of urban visual communications.The fonts next to standard Latin and Cyrillic character sets contain signs of title languages of the national republics of Russian Federation and support the most of the languages of neighboring countries. The fonts were developed and released by ParaType in 2009 with financial support from Federal Agency of Print and Mass Communications of Russian Federation. Design - Alexandra Korolkova with assistance of Olga Umpeleva and supervision of Vladimir Yefimov.
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