1. GILL SANS

2. ERIC GILL

3. GILL SANS IS A SANS-SERIF TYPEFACE
DESIGNED BY ERIC GILL
The original design appeared in 1926 when Douglas Cleverdon
opened a bookshop in Bristol, England; Gill painted the fascia over
the window in sans-serif capitals that would later be known as Gill
Sans.

4. Gill further developed it into a complete font family after Stanley
Morison commissioned the development of Gill Sans to combat the
families of Erbar, Futura and Kabel which were being launched in
Germany during the late 1920s.

5. GILL SANS WAS RELEASED IN 1928 BY MONOTYPE
CORPORATION.

6. Gill Sans became popular when in 1929 Cecil Dandridge
commissioned Eric Gill to produce Gill Sans to be used on the
London and North Eastern Railway for a unique typeface for
all the LNER's posters and publicity material.

7. GILL SANS CONDENSED BOLD