Perpetua

serif typeface commissioned by Stanley Morison for Monotype in 1925, drawn by sculptor and stonecutter Eric Gill with no prior type experience. punches were hand-cut in Paris by Charles Malin from Gill's brush-and-ink drawings, struck in 1926, then adapted by Monotype engineers for machine casting before commercial release in 1929. first showed in an insert for The Fleuron in 1929, printing The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, which gave the typeface and its italic their names.