Okay, okay, everybody has been making their little jokes about „the movie about a font.“ But guess what—this is not really a movie about a typeface. Helvetica is just a character in this wonderfully-made film, which just might be the best history of graphic design we’ve ever seen.
Eric Gill got it wrong; a re-evaluation of Gill Sans
As the preferred typeface of British establishments (the Railways, the Church, the BBC and Penguin Books), Gill Sans is part of the British visual heritage just like the Union Jack and the safety pin.