About Our Font: Perpetua

Perpetua is a typeface designed by the English artist Eric Gill (1882-1940), and cut by the Monotype Corporation between 1928 and 1930.  Originally used for both fine book printing and inscribing names and sayings onto monuments in England, it was named after the early Christian martyr Perpetua, who gave her life rather than renounce her faith in Jesus. The italic was originally named Felicity after Perpetua’s companion of the same name. Their courage and inner peace in the face of death inspired untold thousands of early Christians to stay true to the Way of Jesus in the coming centuries of persecution, and their story continues to inspire us today.