Alternate Gothic font
Alternate Gothic is a condensed grotesque sans serif by Morris Fuller Benton, first issued by American Type Founders in 1903. Its digital versions are sold by type foundries, and free revivals of it are below. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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League Gothic
A revival of Alternate Gothic · Google Fonts: League Gothic
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Oswald
A reworking of the Alternate Gothic style · Google Fonts: Oswald
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Schibsted Grotesk
Google Fonts classes it with the grotesque sans serifs
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Not measured against Alternate Gothic: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Alternate Gothic or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Alternate Gothic
- Designed by
- Morris Fuller BentonSource: Wikipedia: Franklin Gothic , Google Fonts: League Gothic
- First issued
- American Type Founders, 1903Source: Wikipedia: Franklin Gothic , Google Fonts: League Gothic
- Class
- Condensed grotesque sans serifSource: Wikipedia: Franklin Gothic , Google Fonts: League Gothic
- Comes with
- Not with Windows 11, macOS Tahoe or Microsoft 365, by their own listsSource: Microsoft: Windows 11 font list , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe , Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Linotype
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
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Questions about Alternate Gothic
Is Alternate Gothic free?
The design is old enough to be revived freely, and free revivals of Alternate Gothic are on this page. Its commercial digital versions are paid, sold by type foundries. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Alternate Gothic?
Alternate Gothic was designed by Morris Fuller Benton, and first issued by American Type Founders in 1903.
Can I use Alternate Gothic in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Alternate Gothic. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Alternate Gothic isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, League Gothic, Oswald and Public Sans are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Alternate Gothic?
FontKind hasn’t measured Alternate Gothic: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. The free fonts whose own descriptions name it, or its model, are League Gothic and Oswald. Beside them, Public Sans, Karla and Libre Franklin are grotesque sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Alternate Gothic.