William S. Gillies
Encyclopedia
William S. Gillies was an American
artist, letterer, and type designer working in New York City
.
Gillies is best remembered as an illustrator
for the covers of several books including the Ken Holt Mysteries
, Nancy Drew Mysteries
, and The Hardy Boys Mysteries
. He also drew for Collier's Weekly Magazine
and Saturday Home Magazine. He was also a gifted painter of portraits.
United States
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artist, letterer, and type designer working in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
Gillies is best remembered as an illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
for the covers of several books including the Ken Holt Mysteries
Ken Holt
Ken Holt is the central character in a series of 18 mystery stories for adolescent boys written by Sam and Beryl Epstein under the pseudonym Bruce Campbell. The series was published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1949 and 1963. Ken Holt is the son of a world-famous foreign correspondent...
, Nancy Drew Mysteries
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories was the long-running "main" Nancy Drew series, published between 1930 and 2003. Initially, titles were published by Grosset & Dunlap, but with #57 publication switched to Simon & Schuster. Most people consider these first 56 to be the original series and consider the...
, and The Hardy Boys Mysteries
The Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional teenage brothers and amateur detectives who appear in various mystery series for children and teens....
. He also drew for Collier's Weekly Magazine
Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
and Saturday Home Magazine. He was also a gifted painter of portraits.
Typefaces
- Gillies Gothic series (also called Flott)
- Gillies Light (1939, Bauer Type FoundryBauer Type FoundryThe Bauer Type Foundry was a German type foundry founded in 1837 by Johann Christian Bauer in Frankfurt am Main. Noted typeface designers, among them Lucian Bernhard, Konrad Friedrich Bauer , Walter Baum, Heinrich Jost, Imre Reiner, Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler, Emil Rudolf Weiß, and Heinrich...
) - Gillies Bold (1939, Bauer Type FoundryBauer Type FoundryThe Bauer Type Foundry was a German type foundry founded in 1837 by Johann Christian Bauer in Frankfurt am Main. Noted typeface designers, among them Lucian Bernhard, Konrad Friedrich Bauer , Walter Baum, Heinrich Jost, Imre Reiner, Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler, Emil Rudolf Weiß, and Heinrich...
) - Gillies Medium and Gillies Hairline were designed but never cut.
- Digitized versions of Gillies Gothic have been made by ITCInternational Typeface CorporationThe International Typeface Corporation was a type manufacturer founded in New York in 1970 by Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin, and Edward Rondthaler. The company was one of the world's first type foundries to have no history in the production of metal type...
, MyFontsMyFontsMyFonts is a digital fonts distribution, location based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, selling fonts through the web site. It launched in September 1999 , and started selling fonts in March 2000....
, as well as several other digital foundries.
- Gillies Light (1939, Bauer Type Foundry