Gill Sans Nova type specimen
Foundry: Monotype Studio Editor and Designer: Eric Gill, George Ryan MyFonts debut: Nov 4, 2015 Gill Sans Nova Sans CONTENTS Nova 07 SansThe Typeface 10 About the Designer
12 Anatomy
20 Weights & Styles
24 Numbers & punctuation marks
26 Purchasing Nova The Typaface Gill Sans Nova
The Gill Sans® Nova typeface, by Monotype Studio designer George Ryan, expands the much-loved Gill Sans family from 18 to 43 fonts and features a coordinated range of roman and condensed designs. Several new display fonts are available, including a suite of six inline weights, shadowed outline fonts that were never digitized and Gill Sans Nova Deco that was previously withdrawn from the Monotype library. A variety of OpenType® features are supported that make it possible to include experimental characters from different points inGill Sans’s long history, including pointed diagonals on ‘A’, ‘V’ and ‘W’ and alternatives for ‘b’, ‘d’, ‘p’ and ‘q.’ Proportional figures are also available as an alternative to the tabular designs.
The Gill Sans Nova family has a large character set that supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic languages. The display weights support Latin only.
7 “Gill Sans was fast to strike a chord with people after its initial 1928 release and quickly became popular,” explains Ryan. “It’s been adapted for every publishing technology, from mechanical typesetting to digital imaging – always receiving the best treatment from Monotype in each iteration. This is especially true with all that we’ve added to the new series, while still retaining the familiarity of Gill Sans. My goal was to ensure clarity across digital environments, add missing weights, and bring more personality to the family with new display fonts, as well as Gill-inspired alternate characters.” Gill Sans
Gill Sans is a 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 sketched an alphabet for Cleverdon as a guide for him to use for future notices and announcements. 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. About the Designer
George Ryan
I got into the font business in 1978 because of a postcard that was passed through a printing press I was operating. You see, the postcard was flipped across the room by somebody who was acting very juvenile at the time and it caused me to grab a newspaper and head for the reading room. I found an ad (in the newspaper) for letter drawers and the rest is history, my history. ”
10 Eric Gill
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was an English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. His religious views and subject matter are generally viewed as being at odds with his sexual behaviour, including his erotic art and alleged sexual abuse of his daughters, sisters, and dog.
Gill was named Royal Designer for Industry, the highest British award for designers, by the Royal Society of Arts. He also became a founder-member of the newly Anatomy
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VARIANCE STROKE SHOULDER
CALLIGRAPHIC TAIL TOMMY HILFIGER
OBLIQUE TERMINAL SAME LENGHT FLAT ARMS BOTTOMED
TWO STORY A AaAaBbBbCcCcDdDd EeEe FfFf GgGg HhHh IiIi JjJj KkKk LlLl MmMm NnNn OoOo PpPpQqQqRrRrSsSs TtTtUuUuVvVvWwWw XxXxYyYy ZzZz The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
— Eric Gill Weights & Styles
ExtraCondensed Bold Gill Sans Nova Condensed UltraLight Gill Sans Nova Condensed UltraLight ltalic Gill Sans Nova Condensed Light Gill Sans Nova Condensed Light ltalic Gill Sans Nova
Condensed Book Gill Sans Nova
Condensed Book ltalic Gill Sans Nova
Condensed Medium Gill Sans Nova
Condensed Medium ltalic Gill Sans Nova Condensed SemiBold Gill Sans Nova
Condensed SemiBold ltalic Gill Sans Nova 20 Condensed Bold George Ryan
Condensed Bold ltalic George Ryan Condensed Heavy George Ryan Condensed Heavy ltalic George Ryan Condensed ExtraBold George Ryan
Condensed UltraBold George Ryan
UltraLight George Ryan
UltraLight ltalic George Ryan
Light George Ryan Light ltalic George Ryan
Book George Ryan Book ltalic Eric Gill Medium Eric Gill Medium ltalic Eric Gill SemiBold Eric Gill SemiBold ltalic Eric Gill
Bold Eric Gill
Bold ltalic Eric Gill
Heavy Eric Gill
Heavy ltalic Eric Gill
ExtraBold Eric Gill
UltraBold Eric Gill Condensed Inline ExtraLight inline Light
Regular inline
SemiBold inline Bold inline inline Numbers & Punctuation marks
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Getting Gill Sans Nova
You can use this font in any of the following places. Read the full EULA text for details about each license. If you have a usage in mind that’s not covered by these licenses, contact us and we’ll see what we can do.
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26 Available for Purchase
$9.28 per style 43 fonts for $399.00 Zimeng Chen VIS 617 Typographic Design Professor Claudia Strong S.I Newhouse School of Public Communication Syracuse University