I learnt today that Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was indeed involved in paraphernalia behaviour. Also his sculptures and typeface of Gill Sans appeared in the Church of England. Eric Gill took Edward Johnson's famous typeface from the London Underground and used (based upon) this for Gill Sans! Thus went to use Gill Sans in British Railway in printed output such as their timetables and also was used in the BBC logo. However I still found that I the only thing I like from Gill Sans typeface is the letter 'g' where upon I thus discovered that the letter 'a' is hideously horrible being top heavy and totally over balanced as a letter form.
Less with the negativity, I found that Helvetica was first named Neue Haas Grotesk (after the Grotesque period in the late nineteenth century) which made me smile with the name of Grotesk for a typeface...
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