https://blog.typekit.com/2012/05/29/about-face-prenton/ News about Typekit Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:22:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://blog.typekit.com/2012/05/29/about-face-prenton/#comment-3293 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:22:39 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=7222#comment-3293 Typefaces need not be pretty. They need not be balanced. They need not “correct errors” in other faces. Gill Sans is a good example. No one ever seems to admit that this is evocative of England. Why not? British signage and advertising have used this or a variant for many years. Prenton erases most of the idiosyncrasies that make Gill Sans recognizable. The charm is gone. Similarly, genuine old Letter Gothic was great for technical examples. The original book on the programming language Lisp used it to good advantage. Letter Gothic Std by Adobe adds odd curves and loses utility and charm.

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