wdr@wang.com (William Ricker) (03/26/91)
tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: >That GillSans supplied with Adobe Type Manager 1.1 is a pretty weird >font, isn't it! Glad to hear GillSans is being bundled. (I wish the foundry type I'm picking up (approx. 30 Lbs) today were GillSans rather than Futura, but I can't quibble at salvage prices.) > I hate the tiny x-height as far as 300dpi printing goes. I haven't played with GillSans, but I sould guess at 300dpi you don't want to try small point-sizes. How does it look on a linotronic? > Doesn't it look like the face the Brits use on their street and >tube signs and a lot of their adverts? Yes. Eric Gill was the apprentice to the type designer (whose name I forget) who designed the face for the London Metro (tube stations). Gill Sans does bear a *very* strong resemblence to the Metro face, but Gill denied any connection between his Sans face and his master's Metro. I suppose it is possibly as overused in Britain as Helvetica, Courier, and Times are in the States, but I wasn't attuned to such things when I was there. [Source: a poster on type families, probably distributed by Adobe but maybe by CG or BitStream, that hangs in our human factors lab.] -- /bill ricker/ wdr@wang.com a/k/a wricker@northeastern.edu *** Warning: This account not authorized to express opinions ***