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If you do a google search for “what fonts go with…”, you’ll see Futura, Century Gothic, Bebas, and a few other suggestions pop up in the auto-suggest tool. We just did a post on fonts that look great with Futura, and now we are continuing on to Century Gothic.

Century Gothic is similar in some fundamental ways to Futura, but has some very unique differences that clearly set it apart. For instance, notice how the terminals of the letter “C” (and other letters) differ from each other in this illustration (which I reconstructed from an uncredited source on Pinterest):

The perpendicular cut of Futura seems to make it feel more “serious”, where Century Gothic feels a bit less formal. If you compare Century Gothic and Futura in a variety of settings, you’ll see that to a large degree they can be used interchangeably. So, let’s see what fonts work with Century Gothic, pulling from a list of classic typefaces we keep handy, and see what kind of look and feel we can get going.

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5 Fonts that go with Century Gothic

1. Century Gothic and Bodoni

This combination looks like it would work best in a display context, like a poster or a flyer. It’s got a strong sense of classic authority because of the nature of Bodoni, but it also has a modern friendliness to it. Century Gothic is commanding and friendly, but not to the point of being casual or warm. It seems like this would be a great combination to use in a poster for modern classical music concert.

2. Century Gothic and Caslon

Here is a combination we can do a lot more body copy with. Bodoni is not a body font for any length of text for sure. So when we move on to Caslon, we are in a context of a lot more text. They work together but it’s not a great match, but it can work in the right context. Caslon is definitely a more formal typeface with narrow glyph widths, which creates contrast with the wide-set stance of Century Gothic. I could see this combination working in a context where there is a lot of serious-subject copy, like financial or legal disclosures, where there might be a large number of section headers. The section headers in Century Gothic would be bold, easily scannable in a long document you might be flipping through, and would efficiently guide you and drop you off in the right section of serious-business content set in Caslon.

3. Century Gothic and Minion

This is a pretty friendly combination, and the two typefaces here seem to have a happy rapport between them. I could see this working really well in a user manual that needed to be a little copy heavy, but have a friendly feel to it at the time. It feels more modern and less serious than the Century Gothic / Caslon combo, though Minion and Caslon share the same typeface classification. Minion is a recent take from the 1990’s on classic Renaissance-era typefaces, like Caslon.

4. Century Gothic and New Baskerville

At first glance, a Century Gothic and New Baskerville combination looks very similar to a Century Gothic and Minion combination. I’d say some of the same commentary applies. But New Baskerville definitely feels a notch or two friendlier and homier. It turns out that Baskerville was the basis for the popular typeface Mrs. Eaves, who if living would no doubt have set out tea and crumpets for us by now.

5. Century Gothic and Souvenir

This combination has me thinking of the famous painter-pesonality Bob Ross and his “happy little clouds”. But not so much for his campy presentation and rigid formula-style painting. But for his friendly persona (complete with a warm and fuzzy halo of hair) that was the front to an art supply instruction and supplies business that persists to this day. Century Gothic is all business, with a smile. Souvenir is a botox-smile sliding you a business card.

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In Conclusion

Once again, I can state that it’s a fact that subjectivity rules the day when it comes to creating workable font combinations. After the technical side of choosing a typeface, there is the subjective art of deciding what to do with it and other typefaces and how to mix them. Your eye has to be the guide. But look at good typography a lot, and it will be easier to recognize the good (and the bad) in your typographic choices when you make them.

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]

1. ^'Geometric fonts'. Linotype. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
2. ^'Century Gothic'. Fonts.com. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
3. ^Simonson, Mark. 'Monotype's Other Arials'. Mark Simonson Studio. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
4. ^Gavin Ambrose; Paul Harris (1 November 2006). The Fundamentals of Typography. AVA Publishing. p. 145. ISBN978-2-940373-45-1.
5. ^David Kadavy (8 August 2011). Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty. John Wiley & Sons. p. 298. ISBN978-1-119-99901-0.
6. ^Coles, Stephen. 'Alternatives to Futura'. Fontshop. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
7. ^'Avant Garde Gothic Alternates Are Back'. Font Feed. FontShop. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
8. ^Shaw, Paul. 'The Kerning Game'. Print magazine. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
9. ^Simonson, Mark. 'The Scourge of Arial'. Mark Simonson Studio Notebook. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
10. ^Downer, John. 'Call It What It Is'. Emigre. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
11. ^'Century Gothic - Version 2.35'. Microsoft.
12. ^'Wis. college says new e-mail typeface will save money'. Archived from the original on April 6, 2010.
13. ^Ramde, Dinesh (April 7, 2010). 'Century Gothic a font of wisdom'. Twincities.com. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
14. ^'PrintWise'. Strategic Sourcing. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on 2014-03-29. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
15. ^Stix, Madeleine (March 28, 2014). Teen to gov't: change your typeface, save millions. CNN via KOCO-TV. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
16. ^'Fonts'. R Cookbook. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
17. ^Horton, Nicholas. 'Specifying fonts in graphics'. SAS & R. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
18. ^'URW Palladio'. The LaTeX font catalogue. TeX Users Group Denmark. Retrieved 7 April 2016.

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