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Gardner Sans

Gardner Sans

by Lewis McGuffie Type
Individual Styles from $35.00
Complete family of 12 fonts: $399.00
Gardner Sans Font Family was designed by Lewis McGuffie and published by Lewis McGuffie Type. Gardner Sans contains 12 styles and family package options.

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About Gardner Sans Font Family


Gardner Sans is a humanist sans serif with a range of weights, italics, small caps stylistics alternates and a set of decorative ornaments. The light and regular faces work at smaller sizes and the heavier weights are good for display lettering. It is inspired by a few historical sources including Stephenson Blakes' Granby, Gill Sans, as well as some old hand-done lettering for sales tickets. The name (and the basis for the small caps) derives in-particular from the Roy Gardner collection of sales tickets from early 20th century that can be found on spitalfieldslife.com The heavier weights were particularly influenced by a later cut of Gill Sans, Extra Bold 321. The italic is more of a contemporary mix of humanist styles.

Designers: Lewis McGuffie

Publisher: Lewis McGuffie Type

Foundry: Lewis McGuffie Type

Original Foundry: unknown

Design Owner: Lewis McGuffie Type

MyFonts debut: Oct 24, 2017

Gardner Sans

About Lewis McGuffie Type

Lewis McGuffie is a British graphic and type designer based in Tallinn, Estonia. He has a background in creating custom type for private clients and branding projects. His typefaces are often drawn from extensive research and he has a keen eye for the physical, historical and regional aspects of typography. He has also given talks on drawing type and hosts regular workshops on hand-lettering, glass gilding and sign-writing.

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