BBC Font

About BBC Font

BBC, namely, British Broadcasting Corporation, is a British public service broadcaster founded in 1927. It is the world’s oldest national broadcasting organisation.

Since its foundation, the logo of BBC has undergone several changes. The first of its logo is known as the coat of arms of the BBC then the first version of its famous blocks logo was introduced in 1958. The current logo of BBC, which was redesigned by Lambie Nairn and introduced in 1997, consists of three blocks, each containing one letter. All letters are in a non-slanted way, as opposed to its previous block logos.

The font used for the letters is very similar to a sans serif called Gill Sans Std. Gill Sans is a commercial font and you can purchase and download the font here.

Download Gill Sans Font

The Gill Sans font identified above is not available for free, please follow the link above and purchase a font license to download and use the font. Meanwhile, you can take a look at our collection of fonts for cars, pop music and apparel as well as round-ups of new & fresh fonts around the web.

Gill Sans Typeface in Use

In addition to BBC, Gill Sans typeface is also used in the following logos, movie posters or album covers, etc., including: Tears for Fears, Saab, Chicken Little, Frequency, Happy-Go-Lucky, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Bruce Almighty (film), Shallow Hal, Wet Seal, Thomann Logo, Juliet, My Dog Chocolo, Martin, AMD, Comedy Network.

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