Eric Gill was a British sculptor, typeface designer and printmaker (amongst other things) born in 1882 in Brighton. His most famous typeface design created is Gill Sans, a typeface still used commonly today. It became popular after it was used on the London and North Eastern Railway posters from the year 1929. Gill Sans was created by Eric Gill to be the ultimate legible sans-serif typeface, and was designed to function equally well as a text face and a display.
It was also distributed as a system font on Mac OS X systems. The typeface continues to thrive to this day as it's been used so often by businesses to add a sense of artistic style to an often very corporate type of business. It's been used by National Rail, the Church of England and until recently, BBC.
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