![]() ![]() Gill was commissioned to develop his alphabet into a full metal type family by his friend Stanley Morison, an influential Monotype executive and historian of printing. By this time Gill had become a prominent stonemason, artist and creator of lettering in his own right and had begun to work on creating typeface designs. In addition, Gill sketched an alphabet for Cleverdon as a guide for him to use for future notices and announcements. 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. As a young artist, Gill had assisted Johnston in its early development stages. Gill Sans is based on Edward Johnston's 1916 "Underground Alphabet", the corporate font of London Underground. ![]() Gill Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards. ![]()
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