Bunyan Pro

What is the Bunyan Pro Font?

Bunyan Pro is the synthesis of Bunyan, the last face Eric Gill designed for hand setting in 1934 and Pilgrim, the machine face based on it, issued by British Linotype in the early 1950s — the most popular Gill text face in Britain from its release until well into the 1980s.. Gill’s last face doesn’t date itself anywhere near as obviously as Gill’s other serif faces, which were all really products of their time, heavily influenced by the richly ornamental and constantly changing aesthetic trends of the interwar period. When compared to Gill’s previous work, Bunyan seems like a revolution in the way he thought and drew. It’s as if he was shrugging off all heavy burden of what was popular, and going back to the basics of older standards. Bunyan had no bells and whistles, doesn’t risk functionality with contrasts that are too high or too low, and didn’t venture far outside the comfortable oldstyle rhythm Gill grew up with. By interbellum standards, this was utter austerity, a veritable denial of deco excess. Surprisingly, even without all the cloying trivialities, Bunyan still stood indisputably as an aesthetically pleasing, space saving design that could have been made only by Eric Gill.. Bunyan Pro comes in three weights and their italics. The main font is intended for use between 8 and 14 points. The medium and the bold are great for emphasis but also have good merit in larger sizes, so can make effective display types as well.. All six fonts include small caps, ligatures, alternates, six sets of figures, and three original Gill manicules. We tried to keep the best features of the handset (Bunyan) and machine (Pilgrim) versions while building a text face that can function in today’s immersive reading media. Deciding on which useful letterpress features to preserve for aesthetic importance was hell on our eyeballs — which lead to complex and painstaking ways of ironing out irregularities and inconsistencies related to metal technologies, in order to provide something with authenticity. The result is a unique typeface based on a Gill design that, to a much greater extent than any of his other faces, works well as a text face that can be used for entire books and magazines.

Bunyan Pro Font Families

When you download Bunyan Pro, the family will include the following font styles:

• Bunyan Pro Regular
• Bunyan Pro Italic
• Bunyan Pro Medium
• Bunyan Pro Medium Italic
• Bunyan Pro Bold
• Bunyan Pro Bold Italic

Who Designed the Bunyan Pro Font?

Bunyan Pro was designed by Eric Gill, Patrick Griffin, Bill Troop.

This font has 6 style(s) and was published by Canada Type.

Is Bunyan Pro a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Bunyan Pro is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Bunyan Pro. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Bunyan Pro for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Bunyan Pro if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Bunyan Pro to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Bunyan Pro for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Bunyan Pro, it was available for as little as $39.95.