![]() ![]() ![]() There are plenty of similar designs out there, some of which may be freeware or shareware, but they are not Gill Sans itself. In terms of looking “online for a copy of the font you can freely download and install,” since Gill Sans is a registered trademark and a commercial product, you are not going to find such “free” copies unless they are illegally posted on a website. That does not give anybody the right to simply send a copy of the font file to someone else who is specifically licensed to use that font. (2) Gill Sans is a commercial font, even though it is bundled with MacOS. Inside that collection are nine different faces of Gill Sans. TTC (TrueType Collection) file that cannot be directly opened or used on a Windows system. However, although it is in a TrueType format, it is actually packaged in a Macintosh-format. (1) There is a Gill Sans family that ships with the current MacOS X 10.11.x that in fact does include the Gill Sans Light typeface. Note that your advice to “ask the original document creator to send you a copy of their font file, which you can install and use on Windows as Gill Sans is a TTF that's system-agnostic” has some major problems: The Gill Sans family was part of the Adobe Type Library long before MacOS X of any 10.x version! Adobe licensed it directly from Monotype. ![]()
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