7. Font Creator and Arts and Crafts Movement Heavyweight Eric Gill
You might be reading this on a font created by Eric Gill, an English sculptor, printmaker, and type face designer, who created many fonts that are in use today. Gill also played a leading role in the Arts and Crafts Movement, which popularized the use of folk styles of decoration. He was also a pervert, who had converted to Catholicism in 1913, and like many newcomers to religion, he became a zealot, loudly and ostentatiously professing devoutness to his new faith. Gill founded a lay Catholic religious order with his wife and others, and went around wearing habits, with a chastity girdle beneath.
The chastity girdle was ironic, seeing as how Gill was into bestiality, incest, and pedophilia, was addicted to prostitutes and abused his maids. One of Gill’s most famous sculptures, Ecstasy, depicts a couple passionately entwined. The model was his own sister, with whom he had a lifelong incestuous relationship. Some of his most celebrated artwork was used as models for his own prepubescent daughters, whom he liked to draw nude in semi-erotic poses. Gill’s diary detailed his escapades: extramarital affairs, decades of sex with his sisters, incest with two of his daughters, plus bestiality with his dog.
