Tw Cen MT font
Tw Cen MT is a geometric sans serif by Sol Hess, first issued by Lanston Monotype in 1937. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype, as Twentieth Century. 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 Tw Cen MT
- Designed by
- Sol HessSource: Wikipedia: Twentieth Century (typeface)
- First issued
- Lanston Monotype, 1937Source: Wikipedia: Twentieth Century (typeface)
- Class
- Geometric sans serifSource: Wikipedia: Twentieth Century (typeface)
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Tw Cen MTSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Monotype, as Twentieth Century
- Trademark
- Twentieth Century is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
- Also
- Tw Cen MT is Monotype’s Twentieth Century, drawn by Sol Hess after Futura.Source: Wikipedia: Twentieth Century (typeface)
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.
Twentieth Century™ 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 Tw Cen MT
Is Tw Cen MT 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, as Twentieth Century. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Tw Cen MT?
Tw Cen MT was designed by Sol Hess, and first issued by Lanston Monotype in 1937.
Can I use Tw Cen MT in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Tw Cen MT is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Tw Cen MT 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 Tw Cen MT?
FontKind hasn’t measured Tw Cen MT: 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 Tw Cen MT.