On 31 March, 2017, Gilbert Baker the creator of the iconic Rainbow Flag sadly passed away. Mr. Baker was both an LGBTQ activist and artist, and was known for helping friends create banners for protests and marches. To honor the memory of Gilbert Baker, NewFest and NYC Pride partnered with Ogilvy & Mather and font creation toolmaker Fontself created the free typeface inspired by the design language of the iconic Rainbow Flag, the typeface was named 'Gilbert' after Mr. Baker.
The Gilbert font family was designed for striking headlines and statements on banners for rallies and protests. A preview version of Gilbert is available on http://www.typewithpride.com with two fonts, a standard vector OpenType font that can be used anywhere and a color vector OpenType-SVG font, usable in Photoshop CC 2017.
Learn more about the specificities of color fonts and third-party applications support on Fontself’s dedicated website: http://www.colorfonts.wtf
While the typeface artwork was created in Illustrator CC, it was then converted into font files with a custom build of the font creation add-on Fontself for Illustrator, which has been specifically adapted to generate color vector fonts.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en.
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