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Summary

Perpetua is a typeface family[1]. Perpetua draws 511 Wikipedia views per month (typeface family category, ranking #43 of 190).[2]

Key Facts

  • Commissioned by: Stanley Morison[3]
  • Publisher: Monotype[4]
  • Subclass of: serif typeface[5]
  • Writing system: Latin script[6]
  • Designed by: Eric Gill[7]
  • Commons category: Perpetua (typeface)[8]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[9]
  • Inception: 1932[10]
  • Described at URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/perpetua[11]
  • Native label: Perpetua[12]
  • Vox-ATypI classification: Classical Transitional[13]
  • Different from: Perpetua[14]
  • Type foundry: Monotype[15]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . lisagarnerdesign.co.uk. Retrieved . lisagarnerdesign.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Bob08 · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Designed by → Eric Gill
    Gnd id → 7645737-0
    Commissioned by → Stanley Morison
    Type foundry → Monotype
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: Perpetua"
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