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A small update: The other

hrant — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:24:16 -0700

A small update:
The other day I got a promotional mailer for the Luxor casino in Las Vegas, and it uses Pill Gothic for the cover, and some of the inside text. Besides enjoying the pleasure of seeing it in action out of the blue, I thought it looked great, and it’s interesting to wonder if they chose it because setting “Vegas” in Pill Gothic results in something quite nice, mixing that rigidity with that trio of strong, and unexpected, diagonals.

hhp

Yup. Sounds good. Thanks,

dylan — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:54:49 -0700

Yup. Sounds good. Thanks, Tiffany.

Or … Christian.

Miss Tiffany — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:33:01 -0700

Or ... Christian.

Not yet. Pill Gothic

dylan — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:22:23 -0700

Not yet. Pill Gothic doesn’t have one. Boo hoo. Mebbe I oughta bug Grant — bet he’s got a PDF waiting in the wings... Hmmmm.

not even at Veer?

Miss Tiffany — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:20:49 -0700

not even at Veer?

Does ANYONE have a decent

dylan — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:03:00 -0700

Does ANYONE have a decent PDF sample of Pill Gothic? I’ve got it selected as a finalist for a branding project, but can’t find a PDF anywhere.

capthaddock — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:00:33 -0800

Hi, I'm a year late to the party here. Does anyone know if the OpenType version of Pill Gothic includes the AAT tables?

capthaddock — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:00:33 -0800

Hi, I'm a year late to the party here. Does anyone know if the OpenType version of Pill Gothic includes the AAT tables?

pablohoney77 — Thu, 20 May 2004 12:44:21 -0700

Felicitations, Chris! It looks even better in print. Just got Veer in the mail today and saw a familiar, friendly face in there. So how's it feel to have yer name in Veer? *jealous* ;^)

Grant Hutchinson — Wed, 19 May 2004 18:49:02 -0700

You guys crack me up.

But seriously, thanks. I'm still working with Christian to hammer out some naming issues for the PostScript version (which will be released shortly) and there's a bit of weirdness with the OTFs not likely OS 9, but other than that, folks are digging it. Who knows, perhaps Dear Sarah is next...

hrant — Tue, 18 May 2004 10:52:35 -0700

> Veer Eye for the Design Guy

Brilliant!

Or go Roman with "QVEER"...

hhp

Joe Pemberton — Tue, 18 May 2004 10:16:22 -0700

Kudos to Veer (Grant!) for knowing a fine thing when they see it.
Maybe that show should be called Veer Eye for the Design Guy.

hrant — Tue, 18 May 2004 10:07:09 -0700

Pill is shown in the current issue of Step magazine too.

hhp

Joe Pemberton — Tue, 18 May 2004 09:52:15 -0700

How did I miss this kodak moment? This is not a first for
Typophile - Atomic Media picked up some from this forum a
while back - but it certainly is a rewarding moment. Congrats
Christian.

Christian sent me this typeface a few weeks ago (thanks again),
and I have to say it's quickly becoming one of my favorite sans.
It has both the utility I want from a sans and a uniqueness that
doesn't upstage the utility. Way to go Christian. Keep them
coming.

(Oh, and I dig the weights listed by milligrams, depending on the
dose you want.)

ideagent — Thu, 6 May 2004 06:29:45 -0700

Pill Gothic Review: Christian, this is a killer font! I am glad to see that all of the alternates made it into the final mix. I was also surprised to see an alternate "a" and "e". The spacing is nice and even throughout. I am setting some text at 8 point and the color is very consistent. The ligatures work perfectly and I like the addition of the "Th" lig. The "fl" seems a little awkward though. There are a few overlap problems that I noticed: the cedilla, o slash and ae.

Bravo, Christian. This easily makes it into my current top ten!

Pill Gothic

designalchemy — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:09:06 -0800

ditto to Grants comment. userbility goes down.
As far as uniqueness is concerned. Well new "s" is ceratinly interesting but in my opinion not complete. the center slant on the "s" is thicker than the slant the "e", "g" and "a". I am not sure if it is intentional or not but it looks too thick especially in the bold weight. I am also noticing the top counter in the lc "g" is sitting kind of low and not centered. This I suspect may be intentional.
I tell you Joseph, I am a sucker for unusual forms but these days
I find myself regretting certain recent purchases (Sophia from Fontsmith as well as Friendly from Die-Gestalten) because of userbility issues.
I guess Stephan might be right in some ways.
A designer/agency may purchase the new version but will it be used a lot-I am guessing properly not. If one of your goals is exposure of Pill in award winning design the i would suggest going back to basics.