Commercial · Sans serif · Monotype
Century Gothic
Century Gothic is a licensed font from Monotype: Complete family of 4 fonts: $122.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Century Gothic is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Sol Hess, Monotype
- Styles
- 4
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 4 fonts: $122.99 USD (Individual Styles from $40.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Based on Sol Hess's Monotype 20th Century (1936-47) with an enlarged x-height, in the geometric style of the 1920s and 30s; this family has four styles, with a 14-weight Pan-European extension mentioned on the page.
Free alternatives to Century Gothic
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Century Gothic is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Questrial webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Questrial.
commonly substituted
A single-weight sans with full-circle curves; closest to Century Gothic's round bowls and enlarged x-height.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Poppins webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Poppins.
commonly substituted
A geometric sans with constructed, rationalist forms; similar circular bowls, larger family.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Jost webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Jost.
same classification
A geometric sans inspired by 1920s German models, the same style Century Gothic follows; smaller x-height.
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