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Article: Agfa Monotype Announces Gill Sans as the Typeface for the 2004 Olympic Games.
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- August 16, 2004
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WILMINGTON, Mass. and SALFORDS, Surrey, England -- Agfa Monotype's Gill Sans(R) typeface, the sans serif design created by Eric Gill in 1928 for the Monotype Corporation Ltd., is the official typeface for the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens.
"Gill Sans is a typographic work of art with a timelessness that's fitting for the Olympics," said Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Agfa Monotype Corp. "Mr. Gill could not have imagined how well this classic face has stood the test of time. Today, Gill Sans is equally at home on the computer screen as it is on the printed page."
The Olympic committee's selection of Gill Sans was influenced in ...