Commercial · Sans serif · Monotype
Gill Sans Nova
Gill Sans Nova is a licensed font from Monotype: Complete family of 43 fonts: $506.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Gill Sans Nova is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Eric Gill, George Ryan
- Released
- 2015
- Styles
- 43
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 43 fonts: $506.99 USD (Individual Styles from $61.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
George Ryan's 2015 expansion of Gill Sans from 18 to 43 fonts, adding condensed, inline, shadowed and Deco display styles and OpenType alternates drawn from the family's history.
Free alternatives to Gill Sans Nova
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Gill Sans Nova is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cabin webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cabin.
same classification
Its page says it is a humanist sans inspired by Edward Johnston's and Eric Gill's typefaces; it shares Gill Sans's classical proportions with more modern regularity.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Lato webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Lato.
commonly substituted
Semi-rounded humanist sans widely used as a Gill Sans stand-in; warmer and more uniform, without Gill's eyeglass g or flared R.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Hind webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Hind.
same classification
Humanist construction with flat terminals, built for interfaces; plainer than Gill Sans and without italics.
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