![]() The 8-font family is available at token pricing to make it especially affordable for design students.įor less than the price of a design textbook, a student can now have a sturdy and contemporary humanist sans serif family that fits pretty much any design application, and will remain useful long after academic studies and well into a professional career in design. ![]() Not only that, but the school had Avant Garde in the type library (but that didnt include the ligatures). I had to do a poster on ligatures for a type class, so I chose this exact version and bumped into the exact same issues. Many Canadian design schools and institutions will be making it part of their larger type piracy education programs. I will forever be scarred by Avant Garde because of this issue. It is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by eminent Canadian type designer Rod McDonald FGDC, and produced by Patrick Griffin and Kevin King of Canada Type, to honour John Gibson FGDC (1928-2011), Rod’s long-time friend and one of the original founders of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC).Īs well as paying tribute to John Gibson’s productive life and love of the typographic arts, the Gibson family is intended to be a mainstay of the future of Canadian design education. The Gibson font family hits the right spot for many people and on many levels.
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