I need help identifying the typeface used in the title as well as the typeface used in the main text (I don't know if it's part of the same font family but in a lighter form?).

It looks so familiar... However I haven't find any matches with some online tools. The title font looks like a mix between Gill Sans Infant and Twentieth Cent Mt (letters a, u and t are quite specific).

Your help would be highly appreciated 🙏.

Thank you !

It screams Gill Sans Infant. That should indeed be the source font. It’s just a matter of finding the right version that could have been used at that time. It doesn’t have to match the current digital version perfectly. And the scan is weirdly distorted somehow. Hard to say anything more specific without access to the book.

Thank you for your help. 🙏🏼

I have a few Gill Sans fonts but none is a match… I’ll see if there are other suggestions ☺️

I scanned another page from this old schoolbook and tried another bunch of Ai font identifiers with absolutely no match... From afar, the scan is not distorted.

However since this book was made in the 60's without digital help, once you put these pages through an HD lens, some letters become a bit distorted indeed (these pages were not meant to be exposed in HD 😅).

Gill Infant is the closest match however the letters a, u and t are not the same. Is there an alternate version of Gill Infant that I'm not aware of ?

Or is there a similar font from the 50's/60's bearing a strong resemblance to Gill Infant but with identical letters to those mentioned above. ?

Edited July 14, 2025Jul 14 by Samsonite89
added an element

This is simply Gill Sans in metal. By 1937, Monotype offered alternate, single-storey (monocular) glyphs for Gill Sans’s ‘a’ and ‘g’. My understanding is that these forms were default forms in the Gill Sans distributed in France and Germany. By the 1960s, many more alts let it emulate Futura and other geometric sans serifs.

6 hours ago, Stephen Coles said:

This is simply Gill Sans in metal. By 1937, Monotype offered alternate, single-storey (monocular) glyphs for Gill Sans’s ‘a’ and ‘g’. My understanding is that these forms were default forms in the Gill Sans distributed in France and Germany. By the 1960s, many more alts let it emulate Futura and other geometric sans serifs.

Thank you so much for your input Stephen ! 🙂 Is there a digitized version of this Gill Sans with the alternate "a, u and g" maybe under a new name ?

Kind Regards :)

From what I can gather, there isn’t a digitisation that offers all these letterforms.

Gill Sans Infant only has |a|g|. The same can be said for Fiendstar, a typeface directly inspired by it.

Gill Sans Nova offers 2 alternate monocular |a|s and one |g|.

Moving towards related typefaces, that may or may not give a similar vibe, Underground offers alternate monocular |a| (tailless) and |g|, while Mr. Eaves Modern, with alternate |a|, has almost all of them, including the |t|, but excluding the |u|.

On 7/19/2025 at 2:51 PM, Riccardo Sartori said:

From what I can gather, there isn’t a digitisation that offers all these letterforms.

Gill Sans Infant only has |a|g|. The same can be said for Fiendstar, a typeface directly inspired by it.

Gill Sans Nova offers 2 alternate monocular |a|s and one |g|.

Moving towards related typefaces, that may or may not give a similar vibe, Underground offers alternate monocular |a| (tailless) and |g|, while Mr. Eaves Modern, with alternate |a|, has almost all of them, including the |t|, but excluding the |u|.

A massive thank you for your help and your suggestions Riccardo !! 😃