{"id":174,"date":"2007-04-28T17:12:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T01:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/28\/gill-sans\/"},"modified":"2013-06-15T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T16:16:00","slug":"gill-sans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/typography\/gill-sans\/","title":{"rendered":"Gill Sans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"examples of gill sans\" alt=\"examples of gill sans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/gill-sans.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>examples of Gill Sans, an English institution, from <a title=\"designer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.typotheque.com\/site\/print_article.php?id=155\" target=\"_blank\">Designer magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ben Archer has <a title=\"archer on gill\" href=\"http:\/\/www.typotheque.com\/site\/print_article.php?id=155\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting article<\/a> in<del> Singapore&#8217;s <em>Designer <\/em>magazine<\/del>\u00a0<a title=\"ben archer on gill sans in typotheque\" href=\"https:\/\/www.typotheque.com\/articles\/re-evaluation_of_gill_sans\/\">Typotheque <\/a>which he compares Eric Gill&#8217;s Gill Sans to its predecessor, the typeface designed for the London Underground by Eric Johnston. &#8220;To pick an argument with something that is akin to a typographic national monument might appear unwise; it is so very much &#8216;ours.'&#8221; he writes. &#8220;But it is a flawed masterpiece. How flawed? Well, monumentally flawed, in fact.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>examples of Gill Sans, an English institution, from Designer magazine Ben Archer has an interesting article in Singapore&#8217;s Designer magazine\u00a0Typotheque which he compares Eric Gill&#8217;s Gill Sans to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4351,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}