What is the Gill Sans® Nova font?
The Gill Sans® Nova typeface, by Monotype Studio designer George Ryan, expands the much-loved Gill Sans family from 18 to 43 fonts and features a coordinated range of roman and condensed designs. Several new display fonts are available, including a suite of six inline weights, shadowed outline fonts that were never digitized and Gill Sans Nova Deco that was previously withdrawn from the Monotype library.
A variety of OpenType® features are supported that make it possible to include experimental characters from different points in Gill Sans’s long history, including pointed diagonals on ‘A’, ‘V’ and ‘W’ and alternatives for ‘b’, ‘d’, ‘p’ and ‘q.’ Proportional figures are also available as an alternative to the tabular designs. More…
The Gill Sans Nova family has a large character set that supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic languages. The display weights support Latin only.
“Gill Sans was fast to strike a chord with people after its initial 1928 release and quickly became popular,” explains Ryan. “It’s been adapted for every publishing technology, from mechanical typesetting to digital imaging – always receiving the best treatment from Monotype in each iteration. This is especially true with all that we’ve added to the new series, while still retaining the familiarity of Gill Sans. My goal was to ensure clarity across digital environments, add missing weights, and bring more personality to the family with new display fonts, as well as Gill-inspired alternate characters.”
The Gill Sans Nova typeface family is part of the new Eric Gill Series, drawing on Monotype’s heritage to remaster and expand and revitalize Eric Gill’s body of work, with more weights, more characters and more languages to meet a wide range of design requirements. The Series also brings to life new elements inspired by some of Gill’s unreleased work, recently discovered in Monotype’s archive of original typeface drawings, designer correspondence and documents from the last century.
Gill Sans® Nova Font families
The Gill Sans® Nova includes the following font families:
- Gill Sans Nova UltraLight
- Gill Sans Nova Ultra Light Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Light
- Gill Sans Nova Light Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Book
- Gill Sans Nova Book Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Medium
- Gill Sans Nova Medium Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Semi Bold
- Gill Sans Nova Semi Bold Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Bold
- Gill Sans Nova Bold Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Heavy
- Gill Sans Nova Heavy Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Extra Bold
- Gill Sans Nova Ultra Bold
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Ultra Light
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Ultra Light Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Light
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Light Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Book
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Book Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Medium
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Medium Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Semi Bold
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Semi Bold Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Bold
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Bold Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Heavy
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Heavy Italic
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Extra Bold
- Gill Sans Nova Condensed Ultra Bold
- Gill Sans Nova Extra Condensed Bold
- Gill Sans Nova Deco
- Gill Sans Nova Inline Extra Light
- Gill Sans Nova Inline Light
- Gill Sans Nova Inline
- Gill Sans Nova Inline Semi Bold
- Gill Sans Nova Inline Bold
- Gill Sans Nova Inline Condensed
- Gill Sans Nova Shadowed Light
- Gill Sans Nova Shadowed Medium
- Gill Sans Nova Shadowed Outline
Gill Sans® Nova Preview
Here is a preview of how Gill Sans® Nova will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
