Apparently created in 1928 by Eric Gill
https://www.freebestfonts.com/gill-sans-font
You can't libel or slander the dead. At least in UK no-one can sue you. Eric Gill died in 1940.
Some people are refusing to distrubute or use Gill Sans or anything else by Eric Gill
This is why
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill
Warning, worse stuff in link than excerpt below which is bad:
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Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Gill as ″the greatest artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a letter-cutter and type designer of genius″, he remains a figure of considerable controversy following revelations of his sexual abuse of two of his daughters.
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The old controversy of should we shun creative works of the past because the creator was a "monster"?
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