Century Gothic™ font family Linotype.com. Century Gothic is based on Monotype 20th Century, which was drawn by Sol Hess between 1936 and 1947. Century Gothic maintains the basic design of 20th Century but has. CSS font-family defines the priority for the browser to choose the font from multiple fonts. There are 2 types of font families which you can use – Specific Font-Family – This is a specific type of font like Arial, Verdana, Tahoma; Generic Font-Family – This is a General Font and almost all browsers support this generic font family. Century Gothic Complete Family Pack. Available for Desktop use. Available for Digital Ad use. Available for e Book use. Available for Mobile App use. Available for Server use. Available for Web use (Pay As You Go license) Purchase the desired number of pageviews. When you've used all of your pageviews, return to Fonts.com for more.
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Overview
A design based on Monotype 20th Century, which was drawn by Sol Hess between 1936 and 1947. Century Gothic maintains the basic design of 20th Century but has an enlarged 'x' height and has been modified to ensure satisfactory output from modern digital systems. The design is influenced by the geometric style sans serif faces which were popular during the 1920's and 30's. Useful for headlines and general display work and for small quantities of text, particularly in advertising.
| File name | Gothic.ttf Gothicb.ttf Gothicbi.ttf Gothici.ttf |
| Styles & Weights | Century Gothic Century Gothic Bold Century Gothic Bold Italic Century Gothic Italic |
| Designers | Monotype Type Drawing Office |
| Copyright | Typeface © The Monotype Corporation plc. Data © The Monotype Corporation plc / Type Solutions Inc. 1990-91 All Rights Reserved |
| Font vendor | Agfa Monotype Corporation |
| Script Tags | N/A |
| Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe 1251 Cyrillic 1253 Greek 1254 Turkish 1257 Windows Baltic Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) 869 IBM Greek 866 MS-DOS Russian 865 MS-DOS Nordic 863 MS-DOS Canadian French 861 MS-DOS Icelandic 860 MS-DOS Portuguese 857 IBM Turkish 855 IBM Cyrillic; primarily Russian 852 Latin 2 775 MS-DOS Baltic 737 Greek; former 437 G 850 WE/Latin 1 437 US |
| Fixed pitch | False |
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Style & weight examples
Century Gothic
Century Gothic Bold
Century Gothic Bold Italic
Century Gothic Italic
| 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.
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]
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