What is the ITC Avant Garde Gothic® font?
ITC Avant Garde Gothic is a font family based on the logo font used in the Avant Garde magazine. Herb Lubalin devised the logo concept and its companion headline typeface, then he and Tom Carnase, a partner in Lubalin’s design firm, worked together to transform the idea into a full-fledged typeface.
The condensed fonts were drawn by Ed Benguiat in 1974, and the obliques were designed by André Gürtler, Erich Gschwind and Christian Mengelt in 1977. More…
The original designs include one version for setting headlines and one for text copy. However, in the initial digitization, only the text design was chosen, and the ligatures and alternate characters were not included.
The font family consists of 5 weights (4 for condensed), with complementary obliques for widest width fonts.
When ITC released the OpenType version of the font, the original 33 alternate characters and ligatures, plus extra characters were included.
ITC Avant Garde Gothic® Font families
The ITC Avant Garde Gothic® includes the following font families:
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Extra Light
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Extra Light Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Book
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Book Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Medium
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Medium Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Demi Bold Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Demi Bold
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Bold
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Bold Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Condensed Extra Light
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Condensed Extra Light Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Condensed Book
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Condensed Book Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Condensed Medium
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Condensed Medium Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Condensed Demi Bold
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Condensed Demi Bold Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Condensed Bold
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Std Condensed Bold Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Extra Light
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Extra Light Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Book
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Book Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Medium
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Medium Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Demi Bold
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Demi Bold Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Bold
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Bold Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Paneuropean Extra Light
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Paneuropean Extra Light Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Paneuropean Book
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Paneuropean Book Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Paneuropean Medium
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Paneuropean Medium Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Paneuropean Demi Bold
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Paneuropean Demi Bold Oblique
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Paneuropean Bold
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic Paneuropean Bold Oblique
ITC Avant Garde Gothic® Preview
Here is a preview of how ITC Avant Garde Gothic® will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
