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Avant Garde Gothic was created in the late 1960s for a new magazine conceived by the forward-thinking publisher and editor Ralph Ginzburg. The publication was to be called, fittingly, Avant Garde. Herb Lubalin, the magazine’s art director, made several sketches for the logo, but none, fully captured the radical sense that Ginzburg sought.

Finally, Lubalin devised a solution that proved nothing short of historic, typographically speaking. He took gothic caps and altered the angles of the A and V so the V tucked tightly in between the two As of AVANT. The right stem of the second A and the left stem of the N joined forces, and the right stem of the N became part of the T. For GARDE, he layered the circular G with the angular A, and the D and E were combined into a ligature. Every spare molecule of air was sucked out of the letter-spacing until the logo became a dynamic block of angles, lines and curves that still, miraculously, read as Avant Garde. What’s more, it could be moved as a unit around the cover, appearing anywhere the cover design dictated.

There were two original designs of ITC Avant Garde Gothic: one for setting headlines and one for text copy. The differences between the two were subtle, but the display design contained ligatures and alternate characters and the text design did not. When Avant Garde Gothic was turned into a digital font, only the text design was chosen, and the ligatures and alternate characters were not included.

Avant Garde Gothic Pro
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ow, OpenType technology has allowed ITC to release a complete version of Avant Garde Gothic, offering the full breadth of Lubalin and Carnase’s design – all the original alternate characters and ligatures, plus many extras. Avant Garde Gothic Pro includes a suite of additional cap and lowercase alternates, new ligatures that were drawn just for this release, and a collection of biform characters (lowercase letters with cap proportions). The original design contained a suite of thirty-three alternate characters and logotypes; the new design more than doubles this number. Best of all, OpenType technology is smart enough to use these characters when and where you direct it to.

In addition to English, the new Avant Garde Gothic Pro fonts support most European and many Central European languages, including Baltic, Turkish, Czech, Hungarian and Polish. Fonts can be purchased individually or as a complete ITC Avant Garde Gothic Family Package.

 

 

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Avant Garde Mono™ Light Avant Garde Mono™ Light Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Mono™ Light Italic Avant Garde Mono™ Light Italic Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Mono™ Bold Avant Garde Mono™ Bold Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Mono™ Bold Italic Avant Garde Mono™ Bold Italic Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Extra Light Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Extra Light Elsner + Flake Windows PostScript OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Medium Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Medium Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Extra Light Oblique Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Extra Light Oblique Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Medium Oblique Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Medium Oblique Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Bold Oblique Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Bold Oblique Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Book Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Book Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Book Oblique Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Book Oblique Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Demi Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Demi Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Demi Oblique Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Demi Oblique Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Book Condensed Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Book Condensed Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Medium Condensed Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Medium Condensed Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Demi Condensed Avant Garde Gothic™ CE Demi Condensed Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Mono™ CE Light Avant Garde Mono™ CE Light Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Mono™ CE Light Italic Avant Garde Mono™ CE Light Italic Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Mono™ CE Bold Avant Garde Mono™ CE Bold Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType OpenType $43.00 $57.00
Avant Garde Mono™ CE Bold Italic Avant Garde Mono™ CE Bold Italic Elsner + Flake Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType OpenType $43.00 $57.00
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Book ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Book ITC Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $26.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Medium ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Medium ITC Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $26.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Demi Bold ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Demi Bold ITC Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $26.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Bold ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Bold ITC Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $26.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Volume (10 Fonts) ITC Avant Garde Gothic Volume (10 Fonts) ITC Volumes Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $232.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Volume (4 Fonts) ITC Avant Garde Gothic Condensed Volume (4 Fonts) ITC Volumes Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $93.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Complete Family (14 Fonts) ITC Avant Garde Gothic Complete Family (14 Fonts) ITC Volumes Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $319.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi Bold ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi Bold ITC Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $26.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book ITC Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $26.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book Oblique ITC Avant Garde Gothic Book Oblique ITC Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $26.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi Bold Oblique ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi Bold Oblique ITC Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $26.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Extra Light ITC Avant Garde Gothic Extra Light ITC Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $26.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Extra Light Oblique ITC Avant Garde Gothic Extra Light Oblique ITC Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $26.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Medium ITC Avant Garde Gothic Medium ITC Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $26.00 N/A
ITC Avant Garde Gothic Medium Oblique ITC Avant Garde Gothic Medium Oblique ITC Macintosh PostScript Windows PostScript Windows TrueType $26.00 N/A

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