Saturday, October 1, 2011

Gill Sans! I forgot to add it to my previous list- 1928-30

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"The original design appeared in 1926 when Douglas Cleverdon opened a bookshop in his home town of Bristol, where Eric Gill painted thefascia over the window in sans-serif capitals that would later be known as Gill Sans.[1] In addition, Gill had sketched a design for Cleverdon,[2] intended as a guide for him to make future notices and announcements.
Gill further developed it into a complete font family after Stanley Morison commissioned the development of Gill Sans to combat the families of ErbarFutura and Kabel which were being launched in Germany during the latter 1920s. Gill Sans was later released in 1928 by Monotype Corporation."




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