Granby (typeface)
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title:
Granby (typeface)
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Granby is a sans-serif typeface designed and released by the Stephenson Blake type foundry of Sheffield from 1930. Granby is influenced by a contemporary British sans-serif design, the Johnston typeface or Railway Alphabet (1916), the proprietary face of what became London Underground, and Gill Sans (1928) which had recently been released and become popular. Roy Millington's history of Stephenson Blake also cites Futura as an influence. Like both Johnston and Gill Sans, Granby has an upper-case
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wiki
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description:
Humanist sans-serif typeface
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granby_(typeface)
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date modified:
2023-09-03T13:42:09Z
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