Showcard Gothic font
Showcard Gothic is a typeface by Jim Parkinson, from The Font Bureau. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Jim Parkinson, through Type Network. 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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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Gravitas One02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
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Not measured against Showcard Gothic: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Showcard Gothic or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Showcard Gothic
- Designed by
- Jim ParkinsonSource: Microsoft: font list
- First issued
- The Font BureauSource: Microsoft: font list
- Class
- Display face of heavy capitals, by FontKind’s own reading: no source we found states its class
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Showcard GothicSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Jim Parkinson, through Type Network
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.
Typeface names may be trademarks of their owners. FontKind is not affiliated with The Font Bureau, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Showcard Gothic
Is Showcard 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 Jim Parkinson, through Type Network. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Showcard Gothic?
Showcard Gothic was designed by Jim Parkinson, and issued by The Font Bureau.
Can I use Showcard Gothic in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Showcard Gothic is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Showcard Gothic isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Gravitas One, Rye and Sancreek 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 Showcard Gothic?
FontKind hasn’t measured Showcard Gothic: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Gravitas One, Rye and Sancreek are wood-type display faces in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Showcard Gothic.