It has some nice thinning on rounded letters, such as the n, u and r as well, which gives it quite an elegant look.
Monotype says of Gill Sans:
Gill Sans has a relatively small x-height, smaller than Futura and a lot smaller than the Helvetica® or Frutiger® designs. A generous x-height is usually considered one of the prerequisites for a typeface to rank high on the legibility scale, but Gill Sans is an exception. Because the characters of the Gill Sans alphabet are based on classic roman letterforms and not geometric shapes, they are remarkably legible.
Gill Sans also has a more pronounced contrast in stroke widths than most serifless fonts, making the design more appealing to the eye, and ultimately more readable than its monoweight cousins. Rounding out the practical benefits of Gill Sans: The face is space-economical. More information can be set in a given space when using Gill Sans than with most other sans serif designs.
Source: Monotype "Hidden Gems" Gill Sans [online: http://www.monotypefonts.com/Library/HiddenGems.asp?show=gillsans] Accessed 19 April 2011.
Below are some screen shots of the design set at the size of the pod panels. I have blown the type up to 100%, so that I can see it at what size it will actually be when printed. I've left the heading in Old Sans Black, to keep it in line with the original exhibition. You will notice the anomaly in the lower case a that I have taken a screen shot of. I will manually fix this. It's possible that this type might have to be substituted for something else if we need to use Bosnian glyphs for the names (which is likely). For now, I've left it as is.
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| Gills Sans - originally designed by Eric Gill for Monotype. |
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| Old Sans Black Regular, with anomaly in the lower case a. |
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| Gill Sans in Bosnian. Translation is through an online source and not the final translation to be used. |
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| Gill Sans MT in English |
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| A reduced version of the whole panel. |
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