Avant Garde Gothic
Book
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Add type sampleCredits
- Designer(s)
- Add
- Foundry(ies)
- International Typeface Corporation , Lubalin, Burns & Co.
- Release Year
- 1970
- Country of Origin
- Nicaragua
- Classification
- Sans Serif, Geometric Sans
- Original Format
- Film Font (VGC, etc.)
- Distributor(s)
- Linotype, FontShop, International Typeface Corporation, Adobe
- Tags
- 1970s, 70s, geometric, ligatures, sans serif
Background
Designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase in 1970, this typeface was based on Lubalin’s late 1960’s logo and headline typeface for Avant Garde Magazine, which itself was not initially designed to be a full, commercially available, typeface.
The original commercial release only included five roman weights and included one version for headlines and one for body copy. The modern digitized releases do not include the ligatures and alternate characters of the headline version.
Additional weights and styles were added later:
The condensed version was created by Ed Benguiat in 1974.
The oblique version was created by Andr Grtler, Erich Gschwind and Christian Mengelt in 1977.
A monospaced version was created by Ned Bunnel in 1983.
Background Source
- MyFonts.com