And don't forget Gill's lovely Pilgrim font, which was replaced
with Martin Majoor's Scala in the journal I manage to manage-edit,
_South Atlantic Quarterly_, after about 50 years in print with
Pilgrim because Scala is available in a digital version. While
I'm glad my production coordinator no longer has to cut-and-paste
letters for "boards"-stage corrections--and I think Scala is close
enough to Pilgrim (in letter, if not in spirit) to have made it a
reasonable alternative font--I hate its asymmetrical ("po-mo")
numerals and its swash italics, which overdress terms like
"muthafucka" to the point of outright silliness!
And speaking of overdressed typography, Robert Bringhurst says that
the fist (you know, the one Mairead would like to defenestrate) goes
back to the Baroque era, but, he adds, that's no excuse for over-
dressing it with lace cuffs--
Candice
At 01:06 PM 7/12/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Gill also created Gillsans, Joanna and Aries, all of which I have used in
>book design. Perpetua is in common use.
>
>As both an art dealer and a book designer I have feet in both camps. Gill's
>most important work, I think, and certainly his most influential, is as a
>maker of books, including his illustrations of same. He is revered among
>the makers of fine books--one of the great typographers and designers of
>the (now) last century.
>
>I have a copy of his marvelous Hamlet, commissioned by the Limited Editions
>Club. Worth searching out. He amde wonderful use of ampersands, by the way.
>
>
>>
>>On a related topic, it's only in the past month that I've discovered
>>that the Perpetua typeface widely used by Faber in the earlier
>>days was designed by the British artist Eric Gill -- having admired
>>both the typeface and this artist's work for many years without
>>making the link.
>>
>>And 'The Triumph of Love' is also the first book of poems I've
>>seen for over ten years which uses Perpetua (a backwards nod
>>to the Faber Eliot maybe?) . . . . last thing I remember buying
>>in that font was the Greville Press edition of W.S. Graham's
>>Uncollected Poems . . .
>>
>>
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