page_title: Century Gothic
section_title: Design characteristics
hierarchical_section_title: Century Gothic / Design / Design characteristics
caption_attribution_description: English: Two similar fonts with very different structures: Twentieth Century (above) has features for smaller text such as loose spacing and a solid stroke weight, Century Gothic (below) wider characters, finer structure, less variation in stroke width and tighter spacing.
context_page_description: Century Gothic is a sans-serif typeface in the geometric style, released by Monotype Imaging in 1991. It is strongly influenced by the font Futura, but with a larger x-height. Its design also derives from two other typefaces that were designed to compete with Futura. It is an exclusively digital typeface that has never been manufactured as metal type.
context_section_description: 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. 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 around this time, including Arial (a clone of Helvetica), Book Antiqua (Palatino) and Bookman Old Style (ITC Bookman). 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. A version of Century Gothic, Levenim, that includes Hebrew alphabet characters has been included in later versions of Windows.
caption: 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. Century Gothic has a finer structure, less variation in stroke width and sometimes wider characters, and by default tighter spacing.
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