Avant Garde Font

About The Font

Avant Grade is a modern sans-serif font that was designed in the early 2000s. It has a clean, geometric look that is often used in logos, posters, and other branding materials. It is known for its clarity and readability, making it a great choice for those looking to create high-impact visuals. Some fonts that are similar to Avant Grade include Raleway, Helvetica, Futura, and Gotham. They all have a modern, geometric look and are often used in branding materials. There is also Avant Garde Book BT Font Family.

The Avant Garde font has five weights and complementary obliques for the widest widths. In addition to its straight stems and circular bowls, this font also takes steps in geometric design. It creates sharp angles lined up in all the forms of the letters. This typeface is also considered cutting-edge due to its collection of ligatures. This font is highly regarded worldwide.

The Avant Grade font is also available in two digital variations:

1. Avant Garde Gothic Pro: It’s an OpenType version font with additional cap and lowercase alternates, altered obliques, redesigned ligatures, unicase glyphs, and add-in support.
2. Avant Garde Mono: The font was designed by Ned Bunnel in 1983. It’s a monospaced version of the Avant Garde font.

The Story of the Avant Garde

Although it is a font based on the logo font used in Avant Garde magazine, the font also has the same name, Avant Grade. The Avant Grade font was designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase in around 1968 and is based on Herb Lubalin’s Avant Garde magazine logo. The font looks a lot like Futura.

In 1970, Lubalin released the font. In 1974, Ed Benguiat designed the condensed fonts; in 1977, André Gürtler, Erich Gschwind, and Christian Mengelt designed the obliques. In addition to Avant Garde, Lubalin designed Lubalin Graph as a slab-serif variation. It was the ITC company’s first font. In 1970, the ITC company was founded. The first font design was all uppercase.

The OpenType version of Avant Garde Gothic Pro that was released in 2005 includes a suite of additional capital and lowercase alternates as well as new ligatures.

How can you put Avant Grade font to use?

In the past, the Avant Grade font has been used in all types of art publications and in 1970s advertising design.

It is considered a highly influential font, as it helped define the aesthetics of the International Typographic Style. While Avant Garde is often used for display purposes, you can also use it for body text in larger sizes. This makes it a versatile and popular choice for web and print design.

The Avant Garde font has a distinctively modern look with its clean lines and sharp angles. The typeface is also notable for its unusual character, which has a slight curve on the left side.

The Avant Garde font is often misunderstood because people do not know how the letters should work together. However, when used correctly, this typeface’s name describes what it means for it to be used appropriately.

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Font information

Font Family Name	ITC Avant Garde Gothic
Classification	Sans-serif
Unites Per Em	1000
Version	OTF 1.018
Designed by	Herb Lubalin, Tom Carnase, Ed Benguiat, Adobe Type Staff
Released by	International Typeface Corporation
Release date	1970-1977
Copyright	Copyright © 1993, 1994, 2001 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.
Trademark	ITC Avant Garde Gothic is a trademark of International Typeface Corporation.
Contact	Website
Platforms	Android, Windows, Mac, Adobe, MS Word, Mac Pages.
Glyph Count	Est. 253
Character Count	252
Font style	20 style
File type	OpenType
Supported languages	100+
License	Free for personal use only

Fonts Family

• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Book
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Book Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Bold
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Bold Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Demi Bold
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Demi Bold Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Medium
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Medium Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Extra Light
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Extra Light Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Bold
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Bold Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi Bold
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi Bold Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Extra Light
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Extra Light Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Medium
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Medium Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Family Pack
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Bold
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Bold Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi Bold
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi Bold Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Extra Light
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Extra Light Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Medium
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Medium Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Family Pack
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Book
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Book Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Bold
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Bold Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Demi Bold
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Demi Bold Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Medium
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Medium Oblique
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Extra Light
• ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Extra Light Oblique

Font Pairings 

When you combine the fonts listed below with your design projects, they will stand out more.

• ITC Souvenir Font
• Bookman Font
• Recoleta Font
• Interstate Font
• Optima Font

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