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From: blarsen@spider.uio.no (Bjorn Larsen)
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Subject: Re: ATM 1.1
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Date: 23 Mar 91 12:20:51 GMT
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In-Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM's message of 20 Mar 91 07:53:06 GMT


Tom Neff writes:
  >That GillSans supplied with Adobe Type Manager 1.1 is a pretty weird
  >font, isn't it!  I hate the tiny x-height as far as 300dpi printing
  >goes.  Doesn't it look like the face the Brits use on their street and
  >tube signs and a lot of their adverts?


The following is an excerpt from Rookledge's International Typefinder,
London 1990, quoted without permission:

 'During the first half of this century the development of the sans
serif took two routes. In England in 1916, London Transport began
using a sans serif especially designed for them by Edward Johnston, it
was a break with previous sans serifs because it was based on
classical letterforms. His approach was very closely followed by his
pupil and friend Eric Gill with Gill Sans in 1928. In Germany, designs
were influenced by the teachings of the Bauhaus and developed along
geometric lines. Paul Renner's Futura of 1928 is the most popular of
this kind and has been widely copied.'

I recommend the book.

- bjorn