A History of Eric Gill and His Typefaces

This was a typography exercise about Eric Gill the creator of the Gill Sans, Perpetua and many more typefaces.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Eric
• Gill
• Gill Sans
• Sans
• Font
• Fonts
• Typefaces
• Typeface
• Animation
• After
• Effects
• Typography

[Vanvidel28]

what do you mean "they have some variation in stroke width"?

[PixelationStudios]

@Vanvidel28 Well, see in the video how I've got those circles around some letters like the "u" and "m". See how the stroke is thinner? Almost like in caligraphy, that's what I mean.

[kitriallen]

that's gotham (by hoefler & frere-jones) in that obama poster, not gill sans.

[PixelationStudios]

@kitriallen Hmmm you may have me there. But that's what happens when you trust some random website and don't double check your research. My teacher didn't even notice it...

[MrTobytwirl]

However, the work of this evil man is not at all popular amongst survivors of child sex abuse, especially when, if they happen to be Catholics, they are affronted by his stations of the cross as a focus for worship in Westminster cathedral.

Did you not know that Gill was exposed in a biography as a self-confessed serial incestuous child molester who even raped his own dog, or did you just think it wasn't worth mentioning? This is not a joke.

[PixelationStudios]

@MrTobytwirl I am aware of what you mentioned, however this particular assignment was focused on the typography not the creators history.

[TheMrOliverone]

i have to do this guy for my typography for screen and motion class. good work dude.

[TheMrOliverone]

@MrTobytwirl your a dick head, we have to do this for uni, in a class about typography take it up with our teacher you fucking retard.