> It's fascinating to me that 100-year-old fonts can still be so expensive I wonder if it would've been cheaper for them to commission a clean-room digital ver

> It's fascinating to me that 100-year-old fonts can still be so expensive I wonder if it would've been cheaper for them to commission a clean-room digital version of Gil Sans? From what I gather the font itself (published 1928) is out of copyright in the UK, so the main licensing issue is probably just the more-recent digital representations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_Sans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gill_Sans http://www.museumscopyright.org.uk/private.pdf http://www.museumscopyright.org.uk/private.pdf