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You Need the Gill Sans Ensemble!

Lovely spe­ci­mens of Gill Sans via. ‘Let­ter­form Archive’ Photo by tarrytown 

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BBC4: Mark Ovenden: Two Types: The Faces of Britain

"To the trains!!" flickr photo by Gemma Evans https://flickr.com/photos/3fold/2088210725 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license

Just a few days left of this BBC4 doc­u­ment­ary by Mark Ovenden. I’ve not yet watched it but have seen noth­ing but excel­lent reviews of Mark’s doc­u­ment­ary. BBC4: Two Types: The Faces of Britain

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Eye Magazine: Dear Mr Johnston

More Lon­don Under­ground insight:  A let­ter from Eii­chi Kono to the design­er of John­ston Sans, the fam­ous Lon­don Under­ground typeface

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Monotype's New "Eric Gill" Series

Gill Specimen Sheet by Hague & Gill (from Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/bk/4528462260)

Mono­type have released their new ‘Eric Gill Series’, a re-cre­a­tion of Gill and Joanna faces and their variants.