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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)[Futura and Gill Sans from] the nineteen-twenties are highly individual interventions in typeface development. They both bear the stamp of the people who designed them...Gill was attempting, ideally, to establish a link to tradition. He drew a sans-serif typeface, [like Renner with Futura] with the aid of the compass and ruler, but based on the visual regularity of a serif roman.
[On adapting metal type designs to smaller sizes]: It was a kind of visual triage, where the essential features are defended and the less critical details are discarded. Each foundry had its own policy about how much to change and when, but the trends were always the same: lower contrast, looser spacing, simpler features.
I cannot stand any of the digital versions, they have something fundamentally wrong with them that I just can't put my finger on.
Carter, his mother, and his younger brother were able to take little with them, and no toys that Carter remembers.To teach him to read, his mother cut an alphabet for him from linoleum. "Gill Sans", he says, "a popular typeface of the time".
[Futura and Gill Sans from] the nineteen-twenties are highly individual interventions in typeface development. They both bear the stamp of the people who designed them...Gill was attempting, ideally, to establish a link to tradition. He drew a sans-serif typeface, [like Renner with Futura] with the aid of the compass and ruler, but based on the visual regularity of a serif roman.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Gill Sans lit the way for other sans serif fonts that combine geometric precision with looser hand-drawn features, like Mr Eaves, FF Scala Sans, and FF Quadraat Sans.
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