About The Font
The British branch of Monotype in 1928 released Gill Sans fonts designed by Arthur Eric Rowton Gill. He was an English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker at the same time. Underground Alphabe by Edward Johnston’s of 1916 was the base font of Gill Sans. Eric Gill perfected the design using his specialty of designing and sculpture.
Stanley Morison, who was the friend of Eric Gill involved him to design a full metal type family fonts. Target was to compete for German sans-serif fonts of the 1920s. Published in titling capitals Gill Sans Font had a lower-case font style in a short period of time. He wished to design the fonts classical and modern with cleanly outlook
Usage
Gill Sans is basically the text font but expanded to more in use. You can use the font in any content with the beautiful geometric style.
- Designing: Gill Sans Adobe fonts are good for designing purposes. Gill Sans Ultra Bold Adobe font is good as well
- Front Page: Well organized Gill Sans has the perfection to place on the cover page and heading for the design perception.
- Text: Common use of Gill Sans is in text for any content. You can use Gill Sans STD Italic you can use for the quotes.
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Font information
| Name | Gill Sans |
| Style | Humanistic Sans-Serif |
| Author | Eric Gill (1928) |
| File Format | TTF, OTF |
| Font Licence | Free for personal use |
| Type | Regular |
Font Family
- Gill Sans Light
- Gill Sans Light Italic
- Gill Sans Book
- Gill Sans Book Italic
- Gill Sans Medium
- Gill Sans Medium Italic
- Gill Sans Bold
- Gill Sans Bold Italic
- Gill Sans Heavy
- Gill Sans Heavy Italic
- Gill Sans ExtraBold
- Gill Sans UltraBold
- Gill Sans Condensed
- Gill Sans Condensed Bold
- Gill Sans Condensed UltraBold
- Gill Sans ExtraCondensed Bold
- Gill Sans Light Shadowed
- Gill Sans Shadowed
- Gill Sans Display Bold
- Gill Sans Display ExtraBold
- Gill Sans Display Condensed Bold
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License Information
Gill Sans Font is free for personal use that we are providing. You cannot use this one for commercial purposes. If you want, you can purchase the license for commercial use and go for that.
FAQs
Ans: Gill Sans is a humanistic Sans-Serif typeface font with an intelligent design.
Ans: Yes, this font is safe to download and use on your desired device.
Ans: As Gill Sans Alternative, you can use Lato in Google fonts.
Ans: Originally recommended for advertising and headlines, Gill Sans worked just as well for body text once the public got used to sans-serif typefaces.
Ans: With the free version, you can personally use Gill Sans Fonts online. To use for commercial purposes, please purchase the font.
Ans: Yes, you can download this free font and use it for personal use only. You can download it from our website.
Ans: Alternatives to Gill Sans include the Cabin and Lato fonts.
Ans: The font is available for download on a mobile device, PC, Mac, or Linux.
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Good font for a poster. Love your font collection.