Perpetua

Perpetua is a famous font with wrote, designed by Eric Gill and issued in 1929 by Monotype Corporation. ==Perpetua Roman, Felicity and Perpetua Italic[ Edit] == According to Robert Harling, in the book The Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill, Gill began work on Perpetua in 1925 at the request of Monotype's main typographerStanley Morison. Morison saw in Gill a talent to more fonts to design for the type foundry. 1929 Perpetua Roman as Monotype Series 239.

Gill designed two similar fonts: the first was Felicity, that was received with mixed reactions. The second was an italic character set Perpetua Italic, that by Monotype font family was added to the Perpetua Roman-.

The differences with the rare Felicity are the lack of serifs on the ground line of the letter "d" and a straight tail by the letter ' y '. Generally is less sloped than Perpetua Italic Felicity.

Perpetua was first used for the printing of the book "The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity" by Walter h. Shewring in 1929, where the names of the fonts are also derived. This same font as well as Gill's home-made illustrations for that book were used in Fleuron No.7, which was put up by Stanley Morison and printed in 1930.

Eric Gill wrote and illustrated the essays Art Nonsense and Other Essays and gave these out in 1929. Here too he used his typeface Perpetua.