The top of the 'f' has a wedge-shaped serif. In italic, the 'a' has a smooth top and the 'g' is a "single-storey" design recalling handwriting. Fine book printer Christopher Sandford of the Chiswick Press, who knew Gill, commented that "all Gill's types…are variants of Gill's own very lovely, very personal hand-lettering." Letter designs in Perpetua common in Gill's work include the 'a' that forms a sharp point without serif, the extended leg of the 'R' and the flat-topped 'A'. Perpetua in a metal type sample, showing the flourishes on italic 'B', 'D', 'P', 'Q' and 'R'Īlong with these characteristics, Perpetua bears the distinct personality of Gill's characteristic preferences in carving monumental lettering for uses such as tombstones, dedications and war memorials.
The choice had appeal to Morison and Gill, both converts to Catholicism. Perpetua is named for the Christian martyr Vibia Perpetua, an account of whose life was used in one of its first showings its companion italic is named "Felicity" for her companion of that name.
Perpetua was released with characters for the Greek alphabet and a matching set of titling capitals for headings. Perpetua is commonly used for covers and headings and also sometimes for body text it has been particularly popular in fine book printing. Perpetua was intended as a crisp, contemporary design not following any specific historic model, with a structure influenced by Gill's experience of carving lettering for monuments and memorials. Perpetua was commissioned at the request of Stanley Morison, an influential historian of printing and adviser to Monotype around 1925, at a time when Gill's reputation as a leading artist-craftsman was high. Perpetua is a serif typeface that was designed by English sculptor and stonemason Eric Gill for the British Monotype Corporation.
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