Century Gothic™ font
Century Gothic is a geometric sans serif by Sol Hess, first issued by Monotype in 1990. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype. 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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Plus Jakarta Sans
Google Fonts classes it with the geometric sans serifs
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Not measured against Century Gothic: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Century Gothic or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Century Gothic
- Designed by
- Sol HessSource: Wikipedia: Century Gothic
- First issued
- Monotype, 1990Source: Wikipedia: Century Gothic
- Class
- Geometric sans serifSource: Wikipedia: Century Gothic
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Century GothicSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Monotype
- Trademark
- Century Gothic is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
- Also
- Monotype redrew its Twentieth Century to the widths of ITC Avant Garde Gothic for it.Source: Wikipedia: Century Gothic
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Century Gothic™ is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation. FontKind is not affiliated with The Monotype Corporation, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Century Gothic
Is Century Gothic free?
Not to use anywhere you like. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Anywhere else it needs a licence, sold by Monotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Century Gothic?
Century Gothic was designed by Sol Hess, and first issued by Monotype in 1990.
Can I use Century Gothic in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Century Gothic is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Century 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 Century Gothic?
FontKind hasn’t measured Century 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 Century Gothic.