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California Gothic

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Case

Size72 px

Weight400 RegularThe only weight it comes in

Letter spacing0 em

Line height1.10

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CSSfont-family: 'California Gothic', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;

California Gothic is a free display font, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 554 display faces on FontKind, California Gothic has an x-height taller than 86%, is narrower than 70% and, at its regular weight, is of average darkness. Its thickest strokes are 1.0 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.

Compare with Odibee Sans →Compare with another font

01 / Light table

Laid on top of Odibee Sans

California Gothic on one light table with its two closest fonts, Odibee Sans (100 out of 100) and Squada One (89). Odibee Sans is 21% narrower and 14% heavier, with an x-height 27% shorter; Squada One is 27% heavier, with an x-height 29% shorter and more stroke contrast.

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Ink shared with California GothicOdibee Sans…

Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.

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02 / Letters

The California Gothic alphabet

Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400

Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.

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03 / Sizes

California Gothic at every size

1 weight (400) · six sizes, in your words

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48 px
72 px

04 / Facts

Can you use California Gothic?

Designer: Not listed
Kind: Display
Styles: 1 weight (400)
From: GitHub
Character sets: latin, latin-ext
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Can I use it?

Commercial use: Yes.
Logos: Yes.
Websites and apps: Yes. Self-hosted.
PDFs and documents: Yes.
Changes: Yes.
Sharing the files: Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.

California Gothic is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.

What each licence allows →

Read the licence

Its licence file, in its repository

Already in your apps?

Google Docs: Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and California Gothic comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Google’s guide
Word, PowerPoint: Not verified. Install it from its maker’s repository on GitHub first. Microsoft’s list
Figma: Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
Canva: Not verified. Search its font menu for California Gothic, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
Cricut: Once installed. Design Space lists California Gothic under System. Fonts for Cricut →

From each app’s own font list or help pages.

How each app gets its fonts →

Get California Gothic on GitHub

05 / Measurements

California Gothic, measured

Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style

Hxgp in California Gothic. Lines at the measured heights, as a share of the em · The parts of a letter, named

x-height: 68.4% of the emlowercase x
Cap height: 68.4% of the emcapitals
x / cap: 1.00lowercase against capitals
Width: 45.7% of the emaverage lowercase
Ink: 53%letter box filled
Contrast: 1.00 : 1nearly even strokes

How we measure →

Where it stands among display faces

Ranked against all 554 display faces on FontKind

x-heightLarger than 86% of display faces
WidthNarrower than 70% of display faces
InkNear the middle of display faces
ContrastMore even than 83% of display faces

06 / Similar fonts

Fonts similar to California Gothic

Matched letter by letter · its own family apart

All 100 fonts similar to California Gothic →Compare side by side →Get California Gothic on GitHub

07 / Swap

Swap California Gothic without a jump

Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%

None of the fonts that look most like California Gothic sets text to its width and x-height: a swap would move lines.

Fallback while it loads

Until California Gothic loads, this sets Arial in its place at 94% of its size, so running text keeps California Gothic’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'California Gothic Fallback';
  src: local('Arial');
  size-adjust: 93.98%;
  ascent-override: 93.52%;
  descent-override: 20.78%;
  line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}

font-family: 'California Gothic', 'California Gothic Fallback', sans-serif;

08 / Questions

Questions about California Gothic

Answered from its licence, GitHub and each app’s own font list

Is California Gothic free for commercial use?

Yes. California Gothic is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

How do I download and install California Gothic?

California Gothic comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, open its latest release and download the font files from it. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses load from its repository, through jsDelivr, as does its licence file .

Is California Gothic in Google Docs?

Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and California Gothic comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.

How many weights does California Gothic have?

California Gothic comes in one weight, Regular (400). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.

What fonts are similar to California Gothic?

The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Odibee Sans (100), Squada One (89) and Aurach (79), out of 100. Next to California Gothic, Odibee Sans is 21% narrower and 14% heavier, with an x-height 27% shorter. See all 100 fonts like California Gothic.