About this font.

Gill Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and published by Monotype in the United Kingdom from 1928 onwards. The corporate font of London Underground, Edward Johnston's 1916 "Underground Alphabet," is used in Gill Sans. Gill had aided Johnston in the early stages of improvement as a younger artist. In 1926, a younger printer-publisher named Douglas Cleverdon founded a bookshop in Bristol, and Gill painted a fascia for him in sans-serif capitals. In addition, Gill drew an alphabet for Cleverdon to use as a handbook for long-term messages and announcements. By this time, Gill had established himself as a well-known stonemason, artist, and lettering developer in his own right, and had begun to work on typeface patterns.

By his close friend Stanley Morison, an important Monotype executive and printing historian, Gill was commissioned to turn his alphabet into a comprehensive metal kind family. Morison believed it would be Monotype's answer to the wave of German sans-serif houses in a new ‘geometric’ style, which included Erbar, Futura, and Kabel, all of which received a lot of attention in Germany in the late 1920s. Gill Sans was created by Monotype in 1928, first for a set of titling capitals that was quickly followed by a lower-case. Gill's goal was to combine Johnston's inspirations, old serif types, and Roman inscriptions to create a design that was both clearly contemporary and classical at the same time.

• Designers: Eric Gill

• Publisher: Monotype

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