Gill Sans
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gill-sans-206-13104563
title:
Gill Sans
text:
Gill Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards. Gill Sans is based on Edward Johnston's 1916 "Underground Alphabet", the corporate font of London Underground. As a young artist, Gill had assisted Johnston in its early development stages. In 1926, Douglas Cleverdon, a young printer-publisher, opened a bookshop in Bristol, and Gill painted a fascia for the shop for him in sans-serif capitals. In addition, Gill sket
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Humanist sans-serif typeface family
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_Sans
date created:
2003-09-23T05:28:37Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T19:49:37Z
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