Gill Sans^® Std

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Minimum system requirements
Font installation
Family information
Release Notes
Known issues
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Minimum system requirements

Windows®

• Intel® Pentium,® Intel Centrino,® Intel Xeon,® or Intel Core™ Duo processor
• Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista™
  
• 16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)
• Note: Fonts from Font Folio 11 may also be installed under Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows NT® 4.0 with Service Pack 4 if you install Adobe Type Manager® (ATM™) Light 4.1 on your system. If using a PostScript® printer on Windows 98/ME, AdobePS™ printer driver 4.3 or later is recommended. If using a PostScript printer on Windows NT 4.0, AdobePS printer driver 5.1.2 or later is recommended.

Macintosh

• PowerPC® G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
• Mac OS X
• 16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)
• If using a PostScript printer, the latest AdobePS printer driver is recommended.
• Note: Fonts from Font Folio 11 may be installed under Mac OS 8.6 through 9.2 with ATM Light 4.6, and under Classic mode in Mac OS X with ATM Light 4.6.2.

For information on installing these fonts, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.

History

Designed by Eric Gill and released by the Monotype Corporation between 1928 and 1930, Gill Sans is based on the typeface Edward Johnston, the innovative British letterer and teacher, designed in 1916 for the signage of the London Underground. Gill's alphabet is more classical in proportion and contains his signature flared capital R and eyeglass lowercase g. With distinct roots in pen-written letters, Gill Sans is classified as a humanist sans serif, making it very legible and readable in text and display work. The condensed, bold, and display versions are excellent for packaging or posters.

Menu Names And Style Linking

In many Windows® applications, instead of every font appearing on the menu, fonts are grouped into style-linked sets, and only the name of the base style font for a set is shown in the menu. The italic and the bold weight fonts of the set (if any) are not shown in the font menu, but can still be accessed by selecting the base style font, and then using the italic and bold style buttons. In this family, such programs will show only the following base style font names in the menu:

Gill Sans Std
Gill Sans Std Bold ExtraCond
Gill Sans Std Condensed
Gill Sans Std ExtraBold
Gill Sans Std ExtraBold Display
Gill Sans Std Light
Gill Sans Std Light Shadowed
Gill Sans Std Shadowed
Gill Sans Std UltraBold
Gill Sans Std UltraBold Cond

The other fonts in this family must be selected by choosing a menu name and then a style option following the guide below.

On the Mac OS, although each font appears as a separate entry on the font menu, users may also select fonts by means of style links. Selecting a base style font and then using the style links (as described above for Windows) enhances cross-platform document compatibility with many applications, such as Microsoft® Word and Adobe PageMaker®, although it is unnecessary with more sophisticated Adobe applications such as recent versions of Illustrator®, Photoshop® or InDesign®.

One should not, however, select a base font which has no style-linked variant, and then use the bold or italic styling button. Doing so will either have no effect, or result in programmatic bolding or slanting of the base font, which will usually produce inferior screen and print results.

The following faces have version 2.020:

• GillSansStd created Wed Jun 13 16:13:10 2007.
• GillSansStd-Bold created Wed Jun 13 16:13:12 2007.
• GillSansStd-BoldItalic created Wed Jun 13 16:13:18 2007.
• GillSansStd-Italic created Wed Jun 13 16:13:26 2007.
• GillSansStd-Light created Wed Jun 13 16:13:28 2007.
• GillSansStd-LightItalic created Wed Jun 13 16:13:30 2007.
• GillSansStd-Shadowed created Wed Jun 13 16:13:35 2007.

The following faces have version 2.035:

• GillSansStd-BoldCondensed created Thu Aug 16 14:09:07 2007.
• GillSansStd-BoldExtraCond created Thu Aug 16 14:09:09 2007.
• GillSansStd-Condensed created Thu Aug 16 14:09:11 2007.
• GillSansStd-ExtraBold created Thu Aug 16 14:09:13 2007.
• GillSansStd-ExtraBoldDisp created Thu Aug 16 14:09:14 2007.
• GillSansStd-LightShadowed created Thu Aug 16 14:09:16 2007.
• GillSansStd-UltraBold created Thu Aug 16 14:09:19 2007.
• GillSansStd-UltraBoldCond created Thu Aug 16 14:09:21 2007.

version 2.035 created 2007/08/16

• Release for FontFolio 11
• Updated legal notices (trademark, copyright, and patent) for accuracy. Amended, changed and deleted as necessary. Ensured 'Notice' field in CFF fontinfo dictionary is the union of copyright and trademark notices in OTF 'name' table.
• Added uni2010 (hyphen2).
• Added 'size' feature containing a design size value.
• Add default language system.
• OpenType language system coverage for script 'dflt' and language 'DFLT' was added.
• Changed OS/2.WeightClass from 800 to 900.
• Corrected path direction in glyph "Euro".
• Corrected path direction in glyph "ordfeminine".
• First build and release of basic ISOAdobe2 fonts for Library Revision. This is one of a set of fonts which have identical glyph sets and layout features. The following changes were made:
• Removed a superfluous '@FIGURES' class.
• Removed contextual marks from 'frac' feature, making it a regular ligature substitution.
• Duplicated ordfeminine as a.superior, ordmasculine as o.superior.
• Simplified 'ordn' feature. Removed context and changed to substitute a->a.superior and o->o.superior.
• Added 'ordn' to 'aalt'.
• Added a.superior and o.superior to 'sups'.
• Renamed several working names in the alias file to match 'font.pfa' names and ensure their ordering in the font.

version 1.047 created 2003/05/15

• First release as OpenType.

• Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType-savvy application.

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