“I can see nothing in this design to recommend it and much that is objectionable” — Frank Pierpont’s first impressions of Gill’s drawings of Gill Sans, in a letter to fellow Monotype manager William Burch, 1927

Connecticut engineer who moved to London, and headed the Monotype Corporation matrix factory and drawing office from early in the century until 1936, responsible for the level of quality in Monotype Corporation typefaces of the time.

“I can see nothing in this design to recommend it and much that is objectionable” — Frank Pierpont’s first impressions of Gill’s drawings of Gill Sans, in a letter to fellow Monotype manager William Burch, 1927

Connecticut engineer who moved to London, and headed the Monotype Corporation matrix factory and drawing office from early in the century until 1936, responsible for the level of quality in Monotype Corporation typefaces of the time.