ITC Avant Garde Gothic® font
ITC Avant Garde Gothic is a geometric sans serif by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase, first issued by ITC in 1970. It isn’t free: it is a paid typeface, sold by ITC. 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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About ITC Avant Garde Gothic
- Designed by
- Herb Lubalin and Tom CarnaseSource: Wikipedia: ITC Avant Garde
- First issued
- ITC, 1970Source: Wikipedia: ITC Avant Garde
- Class
- Geometric sans serifSource: Wikipedia: ITC Avant Garde
- 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
- ITC
- Trademark
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic is a trademark of Monotype ITC Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and which may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
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ITC Avant Garde Gothic® is a trademark of Monotype ITC Inc. FontKind is not affiliated with Monotype ITC Inc., and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about ITC Avant Garde Gothic
Is ITC Avant Garde Gothic free?
No. ITC Avant Garde Gothic is a paid typeface, sold by ITC. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed ITC Avant Garde Gothic?
ITC Avant Garde Gothic was designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase, and first issued by ITC in 1970.
Can I use ITC Avant Garde Gothic in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with ITC Avant Garde Gothic. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and ITC Avant Garde Gothic isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Montserrat, DM Sans and Plus Jakarta 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 ITC Avant Garde Gothic?
FontKind hasn’t measured ITC Avant Garde Gothic: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Montserrat, DM Sans and Plus Jakarta Sans are geometric sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to ITC Avant Garde Gothic.