A full range of diacritics provides support for over 130 languages. Tabular figures duplex across all weights, case-sensitive forms keep punctuation in line, and an array of alternative glyphs let designers vary its mood at will. This redrawn and expanded version of the best-selling text/display family now boasts nine weights, ranging from the taut, elegant Thin to the massive Ultra, each with a matching italic. A combination of open counters, unequivocal curves, and ruler-straight vertical and horizontal strokes suit it admirably for onscreen display. Its branches are angled in homage to OCR-A. Based on a rounded rectangle, its geometry has been subtly refined for smoother reading. Aldo Novarese knew it in 1962 when he designed Eurostile. Hermann Zapf knew it in 1952 when he designed Melior. Georg Trump knew it in 1930 when he designed City.
The Century Gothic font family is useful for headlines and general display work and for small quantities of text, particularly in advertising.The Century Gothic family has been extended to 14 weights in a Pan-European character set from Thin to Black and their Italics.The already existing 4 weights of Regular and Bold with their Italics are additionally still available in the STD character set.The W1G versions featuring a Pan-European character set for international communications supports almost all the popular languages/writing systems in western, eastern, and central Europe based on the Latin alphabet including several based on Cyrillic and Greek alphabets. The design is influenced by the geometric style sans serif faces which were popular during the 1920s and 30s.
Century Gothic maintains the basic design of 20th Century but has an enlarged x-height and has been modified to ensure satisfactory output from modern digital systems. Century Gothic™ is based on Monotype 20th Century, which was drawn by Sol Hess between 19.
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