Century Gothic Font is a member of the sans serif family. In 1992 this font was published by Monotype Imaging. This font resembles Futura font. It is a combination of two fonts that were created in comparison to Futura.
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Many fonts were created compared to the popular font Futura, but the Gothic font proved to be the best of them all. This font was created as an alternative to the Avant-Garde, which was released by ITC in 1970. One reason for success was that Microsoft started using this font instead of Avant-Garde.
Usage
This font is perfect for any task. The choice of this font is very good for creating a beautiful design. You can use this font on different platforms.
You can use it to create banners. Suitable for making a visiting card of any company. A graphics designer can make better designs for official documents with its help.
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The purpose of creating this font was to give its users different options. This font has a special status in many areas. Many publishers use these fonts in their projects. Also, this font is perfect for headlines. You can also use this font on the website.
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Font Information
| Name | Century Gothic Font |
| Designer | Sol Hess |
| Style | Sans serif |
| File Format | TTF, OTF |
| License | Free For Personal Use |
License Information
There are two versions available for this font. You can use the free version for personal projects only. If you want to use this font for commercial purposes you should buy a paid version.
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Century Gothic Font Free Download
A free version of this font is available here. You can get this free version by clicking the below-mentioned download button.
Language Support
Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gaelic (Irish, Scots), Gagauz (Latin), Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Karelian, Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Moldavian (Latin), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, Saami (Southern), Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin).
Font FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
What type of font is Century Gothic?
Century Gothic is a member of the sans serif family. In 1992 this font was published by Monotype Imaging. This font resembles Futura font.
Is Century Gothic a free font?
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There are two versions, free and paid. the free version is for personal projects. After purchasing the paid version you can use this font for commercial designs.
How to install Century Gothic on Computer?
You can install this font on your computer. Click on the above mentioned download button. After download, you can install it on your pc.
What font is similar to Century Gothic?
Spartan, Geometric 212, Avenir Next, Museo Sans, Ano, ITC Avant Garde Gothic, Arial, and FF Kievit are to this font.
| Category | Sans-serif |
|---|---|
| Classification | Geometric |
| Foundry | Monotype |
| Date created | 1991 |
| Design based on | Twentieth Century |
Century Gothic is a sans-serif typeface in the geometric style, released by Monotype Imaging in 1991.[1][2] It is strongly influenced by the font Futura, but with a larger x-height.[citation needed] Its design also derives from two other typefaces that were designed to compete with Futura.[citation needed] It is an exclusively digital typeface that has never been manufactured as metal type.[citation needed]
Design[edit]
Like many geometric sans-serifs, Century Gothic's design has a single-story 'a' and 'g', and an 'M' with slanting sides resembling an upturned 'W'. Century Gothic has a high x-height (tall lower-case characters). Its origins (see below) come from a design intended for large-print uses such as headings and signs, and so it has a reasonably purely geometric design closely based on the circle and square, with less variation in stroke width than fonts designed for small sizes tend to show, and a relatively slender design in its default weight.
Sources[edit]
While many geometric sans-serif typefaces have been released to compete with the popular typeface Futura, Century Gothic is perhaps unique in its origin: it redraws one to match the design proportions of a second. Century Gothic was created to be a substitute font for ITC Avant Garde, designed by Herb Lubalin, and released by the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1970, so a document created in one can be displayed in the other with no change to copyfit.[3][4] This allows it to substitute interchangeably for Avant Garde in documents, an important feature since Avant Garde is a standard font in some forms of the PostScript digital printing standard, and so Century Gothic allowed Microsoft to use it in preference to paying for an ITC Avant Garde license.
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Additionally, Century Gothic's design was based on Monotype's own Twentieth Century, which was drawn by Sol Hess between 1937 and 1947 for the Lanston Monotype Company.[5] Century Gothic is similar to ITC Avant Garde in its pure geometry, and does not possess the subtle variation in stroke width found in either Futura or Twentieth Century.[6] However, it differs from ITC Avant Garde in that like Futura and Twentieth Century, Century Gothic does not have a descender at bottom right of the 'u' (making it appear like a Greek upsilon υ), whereas Avant Garde does. Century Gothic also has larger, rounder tittles on the letters i and j more akin to Futura, whereas Avant Garde keeps the tittles square and the same width as the letter strokes. Most notably, it lacks the extreme stylistic alternates of Avant Garde, such as highly slanted letters designed to fit together closely in kerning.[7]
Century Gothic Full Font Family
Design characteristics[edit]
ITC Avant Garde was intended as a display design for large headings and advertisements (although it is somewhat usable for body text because of the high x-height) and as a result Century Gothic is quite a light typeface, especially in default weight, with the classic display typeface feature of tight spacing and quite wide characters, in contrast to Twentieth Century which was intended more for small-size applications with a more solid stroke weight and open spacing.[8] While its structure is similar to Futura, its regular style is between Futura and Twentieth Century's regular and light weights.
Century Gothic was one of several clones of PostScript standard fonts created by Monotype in collaboration with or sold to Microsoft, including Arial (a clone of Helvetica), Book Antiqua (Palatino) and Bookman Old Style (ITC Bookman).[9][10] It was bundled with Microsoft Office 4.3 in 1994 and subsequently provided with Plus! 95, Windows 98, Microsoft Works, and various versions of Microsoft Office up to 2010.[11] A version of Century Gothic, Levenim, that includes Hebrew alphabet characters has been included in later versions of Windows.
Printer ink usage[edit]
According to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Century Gothic uses much less ink than other, similar sans-serif typefaces. It was found that Century Gothic uses about 30% less ink than Arial. In order to save money that would be spent on printer ink for other typefaces, the university reportedly switched their default e-mail and printing typeface from Arial to Century Gothic.[12] However, the typeface has also been found to use more paper—due to its wider letters—meaning that the savings on ink are offset by an increase in paper costs.[13]
Along with the serif typeface Garamond, Century Gothic is one of the two typefaces that PrintWise, an initiative of the U.S. government's General Services Administration, recommends U.S. government workers use for printed documents.[14][15]
Related fonts[edit]
Apart from Avant Garde and Futura, a number of other fonts based on Avant Garde have been created to substitute for it in PostScript implementations. A particular case of this is an open-sourced set of fonts developed by URW and donated to the Ghostscript project to create a free PostScript alternative. This includes an AvantGarde clone known as 'Gothic L'. It (or a derivative) is used by much open-source software such as R as a system font.[16][17] A derivative of this family known as 'TeX Gyre Adventor' has been prepared for use in the TeX scientific document preparation software.[18]
References[edit]
- ^'Geometric fonts'. Linotype. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^'Century Gothic'. Fonts.com. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^Simonson, Mark. 'Monotype's Other Arials'. Mark Simonson Studio. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- ^Gavin Ambrose; Paul Harris (1 November 2006). The Fundamentals of Typography. AVA Publishing. p. 145. ISBN978-2-940373-45-1.
- ^David Kadavy (8 August 2011). Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty. John Wiley & Sons. p. 298. ISBN978-1-119-99901-0.
- ^Coles, Stephen. 'Alternatives to Futura'. Fontshop. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
- ^'Avant Garde Gothic Alternates Are Back'. Font Feed. FontShop. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^Shaw, Paul. 'The Kerning Game'. Print magazine. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^Simonson, Mark. 'The Scourge of Arial'. Mark Simonson Studio Notebook. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ^Downer, John. 'Call It What It Is'. Emigre. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ^'Century Gothic - Version 2.35'. Microsoft.
- ^'Wis. college says new e-mail typeface will save money'. Archived from the original on April 6, 2010.
- ^Ramde, Dinesh (April 7, 2010). 'Century Gothic a font of wisdom'. Twincities.com. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ^'PrintWise'. Strategic Sourcing. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on 2014-03-29. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ^Stix, Madeleine (March 28, 2014). Teen to gov't: change your typeface, save millions. CNN via KOCO-TV. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
- ^'Fonts'. R Cookbook. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
- ^Horton, Nicholas. 'Specifying fonts in graphics'. SAS & R. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
- ^'URW Palladio'. The LaTeX font catalogue. TeX Users Group Denmark. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
External links[edit]
- Media related to Century Gothic at Wikimedia Commons