Typefaces

Eric Gill's types include:

Gill Sans (his best acclaimed face and abiding bequest to typography 1927–30)

Perpetua (1926)

Perpetua Greek (1929)12

Golden Cockerel Press Type (for the Golden Cockerel Press; 1929)

Solus (1929),

Joanna (based on assignment by Granjon; 1930–31)

Aries (1932)

Floriated Capitals (1932)

Bunyan (1934)

Pilgrim (recut adaptation of Bunyan; 1953)

Jubilee (also accepted as Cunard; 1934)

In his 1947–49 redesign for Penguin Books, a activity that resulted in the enactment of Penguin Composition Rules, Jan Tschichold defined use of Gill Sans for book titles, and in branding their Pelican imprint. In the 1990s, the BBC adopted Gill Sans for its wordmark and abounding of its on-screen television