Monkeyface by Stephen Gilbert

Contributed by Florian Hardwig


Source: www.abebooks.com Transformer. License: All Rights Reserved.

Coming from mid-century Britain, it’s easy to assume that the jacket typography of this book uses Gill Sans Light Italic with a few customized swash glyphs. In fact, it’s the corresponding style from Tempo, a sans serif issued by the American Ludlow company. Tempo Light Italic came with a full set of alternate swash caps, the one for M featuring here. The glyphs for B P R with the “protruding roof” as well as the N with the curving stems are the default forms.

Stephen Gilbert’s Monkeyface was published by Faber & Faber in 1948. According to Wikipedia, it tells “the story of an ape-man missing link who is brought from the jungles of South America to the U.K. and learns to speak English, but struggles with adapting to modern human society.”

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use

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