Category Typography

What’s wrong with Gill Sans?

Gill Sans

Gill Sans — not as good as I thought…

I’m not sure how I came across it in the course of look­ing for inform­a­tion on Design Discourse top­ics but I found this art­icle on GIll Sans. I recall hav­ing declared my love for this typeface quite loudly in the pub after our vis­it to decode at the V&A. High on swiftly drunk alco­hol and nervous sit­ting next to Paul McNeil, I feel I was maybe a little too free with my praise of this typeface and the force­ful­ness with which I expressed it. Reading this very inter­est­ing art­icle was a little sober­ing (no pun inten­ded) and I sud­denly feel the urge to track down some dif­fer­ent typefaces…