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William S. Gillies

William Gillies (b. 1911, San Francisco) was an illustrator and lettering artist. He designed the clean hand-printed typeface Gillies Gothic for the Bauersche Giesserei in 1935, where he also published Florentina in 1934. Gillies Gothic is also called Flott. Mac McGrew writes: Gillies Gothic is an unusual monotone cursive style, rather than a gothic in either meaning of that term. It was designed by William S. Gillies of New York City in 1935, in two weights, but cast only by Bauer in Germany. Aside from the fact that it is not a connected script, it is somewhat similar to Kaufmann (q.v.), although many letters have unusual forms. Medium and hairline weights are said to have been designed, but not cut.

For a digital version, see Giulio Pro (SoftMaker), Giulio No2 (2012, SoftMaker), Gillies Gothic (ITC), Gillies Gothic EF (Elsner+Flake), Gillies Gothic (Linotype), Gillies Gothic (URW++), Gillies Gothic SH (Scangraphic Digital Type Collection), Gillies Gothic SB (Scangraphic Digital Type Collection), Opti Goal Gothic Bold (by Castcraft), Gillies Gothic (by Philip Kelly, 1982), Gillies Gothic MN (by Mecanorma), G731 Script (by Softmaker), and Gillies Gothic Bold (by Dan Solo).

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