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Contents.Design 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 (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. Main article:While many geometric sans-serif typefaces have been released to compete with the popular typeface, 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, designed by, and released by the in 1970, so a document created in one can be displayed in the other with no change to copyfit. 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 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, which was drawn by between 1937 and 1947 for the. 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. 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 υ), whereas Avant Garde does. Century Gothic also has larger, rounder 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 of Avant Garde, such as highly slanted letters designed to fit together closely in kerning. Design characteristics.
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Twentieth Century (above) and Century Gothic (below) at equalised x-height in their default weight. Twentieth Century has features for smaller text such as loose spacing and a solid stroke weight that narrows where curves join the verticals. Retrieved 9 May 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016. Mark Simonson Studio.
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Webfont KitThe license for this font is the SIL OFL license. This license does not allow us to redistribute derivative versions of the font without wholesale name changes inside and out of the font. Until we figure out a reasonable method of delivering these to you and complying with the license, you will have to use theyourself on these, renaming the fonts appropriately.If you are the designer of this font, and this was an unintended consequence of using the OFL license,and give us permission to allow webfont conversions. League Gothic is a revival of an old classic, and one of our favorite typefaces, Alternate Gothic No.1. It was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company (ATF) in 1903. The company went bankrupt in 1993. And since the original typeface was created before 1923, the typeface is in the public domain.We decided to make our own version, and contribute it to the Open Source Type Movement.
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