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Century Gothic is a geometric sans-serif typeface released by Monotype Imaging in 1991. It is strongly influenced by the font Futura, though with a higher x-height, and its design history also derives from two separate typefaces intended as Futura competitors. It is a digital typeface that has never been made into actual foundry type. ==Sources== While many geometric sans-serif typefaces have been released to compete with the popular typeface Futura, Century Gothic is perhaps unique in its origin: it redraws one to match the design proportions of a second. Distinctive, Futura-derived features of Century Gothic are its single-storey lowercase ''a'' and ''g.'' However, it has a much higher x-height (height of lowercase letters), an effect which promotes readability especially at small print sizes, and which was particularly popular in the 1970s for general-purpose typefaces, making it less similar to Futura than many other knockoff typefaces of the period. Its design starts from Sol Hess's Twentieth Century, which was drawn between 1937 and 1947 for the Lanston Monotype Company. Century Gothic was then redrawn to be metrically identical to the popular Avant Garde Gothic, designed by Herb Lubalin, and released by the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1970. Century Gothic is similar to ITC Avant Garde in its pure geometry, and does not possess the subtle variation in stroke width found in either Futura or Twentieth Century. However, it differs from ITC Avant Garde in that Century Gothic does not have a descender on lowercase u (making it appear like a Greek upsilon υ), whereas Avant Garde does. Century Gothic also has larger, rounder tittles on the letters ''i'' and ''j'', whereas Avant Garde keeps the tittles square and the same width as the letter strokes. Most notably, it lacks the extreme stylistic alternates of Avant Garde, such as highly slanted letters designed to fit together closely in kerning. Century Gothic is quite a light typeface, especially in default weight. While its structure is similar to Futura, its regular style is between Futura's book and light weights. Its bold weight resembles Futura's medium style more than its bold style. Century Gothic was created based on Twentieth Century to be metrically identical to Avant Garde Gothic, so a document created in one can be displayed in the other with no change to copyfit. This allows it to substitute for Avant Garde in documents, an important feature since Avant Garde is a standard font in some forms of the PostScript digital printing standard, and so offering Century Gothic as a default system font allowed Microsoft to avoid buying an ITC Avant Garde license. Its origin is similar to other knockoff designs created by Monotype for Microsoft in the same period matching common fonts produced by other companies, such as Arial and (even more blatantly) Book Antiqua. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Century Gothic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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