← Futura Std Bold Oblique Futura Std Book Oblique → Preview Your Text In Futura Std Book Download Futura Std Book By clicking download and downloading the Font, You agree to our Terms and Conditions of Usage. About Futura Std Book Futura Std Bold Condensed → Preview Your Text In Futura Std Bold Download Futura Std Bold About Futura Std Bold Sign up or log in to customize your list. Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question The best answers are voted up and rise to the top I have a PSD comp for a website and the titles are in ITC Avant Garde Std. What's a good replacement font? It should be available for the web, either free or on TypeKit. Century Gothic is pretty well-saturated on the Web and has letterforms that are in the same ballpark as Avant Garde. If a Mac doesn't have it on their system, you can put Futura lower down the font stack. Not sure how scientific these surveys are, but the numbers are in line with what I've read before: Century Gothic is on probably about 87% of PCs (63% of Macs too!) and Futura is on about 96% of Macs.
Tex Gyre Adventor is a really nice replacement for both Avant Garde and Century Gothic. Useful if you also target devices that are not a pc or Mac. "Raleway" from google webfonts is very close and easy to use. Just to add, if the ascenders on Futura PT are too crazy high, or if someone finding this is looking for a free alternative to ITC Avant Garde, Didact Gothic on Google Web Fonts has many features in common. The capitals are less eyecatching than Avant Garde's, and the letters are more uniform (e.g. no crazy-slim r), but it has a similar clear clean simplicity. It's probably suitable for use in titles or large, short (bullet list?) text. It's got a decent range of glyphs, but unfortunately only one weight (standard/400), so it's not a good replacement for the elegant light or heavy Avant Garde weights. Check out Publica Sans from Facetype It has even more glyphs and stylistic alternates than ITC Avante Garde Gothic. I know this post is a bit old, but I faced this issue today and finally found a GoogleFont alternative : Poppins
Beside some letter width and le letter Q (which is completely different), the font is a pretty good and free alternative. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged web-fonts font-recommendation free or ask your own question.The available fonts (on the machine on which this page was generated) are //samples = [ text(f, font(f), fontSize(12), left()) | f <- fontNames()]; //render(grid(samples, size(700), gap(350, 20), left(), bottom())); Abbreviations in Font Names – the Guide! February 23rd, 2017 by Jim Kidwell “Does Ob stand for Oblique?” You’ll find out as we crack the code to this and other font abbreviation mysteries. A while back, we came up with a list of font name abbreviations. We’ve decided to provide that list again! Here are a few abbreviations that many of you may need help deciphering:
Kinds of Font Abbreviations Font Abbreviations mostly fall in several common categories: Foundry name: usually in the form of one or two letters at the beginning or end of the name (LT, MT, A, BT, FB, URW). “Foundries” are the companies that create fonts, a term going back to the days of metal type. Language designation: comes at the end of a name (Cyr, Grk, CE). Generally this only applies to older fonts where a separate font was issued for different languages. In most cases, newer fonts put all the languages in a single font. Font size as intended in print: (Text, Display, Poster/Caption, Small Text, Regular, Subhead, Display). Read up on for more on this concept. Note that this is usually a print-focused designation; if one is using print fonts for screen/web, using fonts designed for smaller sizes in print at somewhat bigger sizes on screen is often a good idea. A “caption” font might be great for body text on screen. Download the complete list of font abbreviations here.
Extremely light and extremely heavy weights are generally only useful at very large sizes. The full names for some common weights, in approximate increasing order: Hairline, UltraThin, UltraLight, Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Book, Medium, Semibold or Demibold, Bold, ExtraBold, Heavy, Black, ExtraBlack, UltraBold or Ultra. A: Adobe, the type foundry and software company based in California. A2: Not an abbreviation. A foundry based in London. AEF: Altered Ego Fonts FoundryA designation of weight close to “regular” which may exist in place of regular, or be slightly lighter or heavier, depending on the foundry’s preferences.A very bold weight, beyond Extra BoldLinotype’s name for fonts aimed at corporate customers, which are TrueType flavored OpenType fonts that have a specific extended character set (close to Western + CE, actually “LEEC”) and generally lack extensive OpenType alternate glyphs. Dm, Demi: Demibold, a weight in between regular and bold.
IHOF: International House of Fonts. A distribution imprint of the P22 foundry.A large foundry dating back to the 19th century (but see also Lt), later acquired by Monotype.A font with strokes a bit thinner than usual. (But see also LT) LTC: Lanston Type Co. Originally the US counterpart of Monotype a century ago, recently acquired by P22.A typewriter-like font in which all the characters have the same width. “M” by itself is URW’s abbreviation.A large foundry dating back to the 19th century.A slanted counterpart to an upright font. Oblique differs from italic in that the design is essentially unchanged. In many cases there has not even been any compensation for the unpleasant optical effects caused by mechanical/mathematical slanting. Generally a real italic font is preferable. In most applications, hitting an “italic” button on a font that has no italic style available results in a particularly gruesome OS-improvised oblique, at about double the angle of typical designed obliques or italics.