JLS Data Gothic™

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What is the JLS Data Gothic™ font?

Everyone remembers their first. JLS Space was my first. It was the first computer format font that I created. The font was inspired by the sci-fi movie posters, book covers and comic books of my childhood. The first crude letterforms were conjured in an all-night marathon session with no sketches and no planning. A simple character set, it consisted of upper case, lower case, numbers and basic punctuation. But, the project was little more than an interesting exercise, and JLS Space faded into digital limbo. This unfortunate font was ignored and lost for fifteen years. Mike Adkins, my co-conspirator, found and rescued the font file from the depths of a failing hard drive. He sent the file to me as a curiosity – a glimpse back at our humble beginnings. I started puttering around with it on a whim. Without really trying, Data Gothic began to form. The interesting letter forms in Data and Space Gothic struck a chord, and I was inspired to complete the project almost twenty years after it was started. More…
JLS Space Gothic was inspired by the OCR and MICR fonts of the science fiction genre. Today, its character will enhance terms like Computer Diagnostic or Space Age Polymer. Posters, titles and displays will boldly blast off into the market place with these cybernetic letterforms. If Space Gothic is retro and seems limited in its genre, Data Gothic is contemporary with a broad spectrum of uses. This futuristic gothic doesn’t sacrifice legibility for style. As a screen font, JLS Data Gothic is excellent for technical specifications, on screen dialogue, labeling, etc. In print, Data Gothic is a great font for text in manuals, schematics, maps and diagrams.
To honor Sputnik, Man’s first voyager into space, Space Gothic and Data Gothic include Cyrillic.

JLS Data Gothic™ Font families

The JLS Data Gothic™ includes the following font families:

  • JLS Data Gothic Regular
  • JLS Data Gothic Cond
  • JLS Space Gothic Regular
  • JLS Space Gothic Cond

JLS Data Gothic™ Preview

Here is a preview of how JLS Data Gothic™ will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.


Is JLS Data Gothic™ A free font? Is JLS Data Gothic™ Free to Download?

No,JLS Data Gothic™ is not free to download. You will need to pay for it I'm afraid. Almost every font that we list on HighFonts.com is a paid-for, premium font. We do have a Free Fonts section where we list free fonts that you can download. There is no point trying to find a free download of JLS Data Gothic™ so please don't waste your time looking.

It is highly unlikely that you'll be able to find JLS Data Gothic™ for free. There's a lot of websites that will say "Free Download" but these are just attempts to get you to click on a link which will either take you to an ad landing page or you risk getting viruses on your computer. In the rare occasion that you do find a free download for JLS Data Gothic™ remember that it's illegal to use a font if you didn't pay for it!

If you really want JLS Data Gothic™ and you want to truly own it the legal and safe way, then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts.com. Here you will be able to obtain the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their work, as they have put in the hours and the creativity to produce such an amazing font. Good luck with your purchase and future use of this font. :)