Better type from MONOTYPE, Classic Faces, Gill Sans [Type Specimen Broadside]

Publisher: Monotype
Date: Late 1980’s
Size: 610 x 920
Designer: Phil Baines
Condition: (A-) Occasional light crease

(Text) 'Although GILL SANS is nominally attributed to Gill. (...) he owed, in company with all the other modern type designers, a considerable debt to his technical advisers & collaborators, particularly tho se in the drawing office & above all to the punch cutters. A comparison between Gill's original drawings with the revisions made by the Monotype technicians gives some indication of the help Gill received. As originally projected, Gill Sans serif would certainly not have held its own in company with either Futura or Erbar. Or, for that matter, with Johnson's. But he had the wit to learn quickly from those who could advise him in this new technology, & in its final form, Gill Sans proved superior to all others available to printers & typographers who might be interested in having a sans serif which was not a dehumanized, wholly mechanized alphabet.'

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