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GILL SANS INFANT/FUTURA HYBRID?

RALFS

I found this font in a german cookbook from the 50ies (DR.OETKER BACKEN MACHT FREUDE); Mike Yanega thinks it might be a hybrid typeface (Gill sans Infant with l, t, u and M out of Futura/Twentieth Century) and suggested to post it here.

Has anyone another idea? Is it common to mix typefaces? Sorry, I am not a professional so please bare with my naive questioning.

I would like to use the font for a publication, I find it very elegant...

Thanks a lot for helping me!!

I’m surprised there has been no response yet on this question. Is this a modified version of Gill Sans Schoolbook (Infant), or is it truly a hybrid typeface, mixing Gill with a Futura-like type?

I suggested that Ralf post this here, becuase I was hoping someone else might know whether type mixing was a common practice to create a ’new’ type look. I know I am one of the older folks on this forum, but my background in type is based in my books, and not on firsthand experience in the field of typography. I was an engineer, not a typographer.

- Mike Yanega

i seem to remember reading that Monotype tried several different attempts to Futur-ize Gill and this may be one of those permutations. If this is the case, I doubt that there has been any digital version made of this particular model.
You could get pretty close with P22 Underground Pro Light + several of the stylistic sets activated, but even that would not give you an exact match (there’s no splayed M, no single-story a with tail, no stem-less u—i had to stop with customizing options somewhere).

Wow, look at the spacing on the lc s. I really like the feeling though. And the lc b is pretty sweet I think.

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