It is an OpenType variant of the original ITC Avant Garde Gothic, plus a suite of additional cap and lowercase alternates, new ligatures, unicase glyphs. Digital versions ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro Alphatype, Autologic, Berthold, Compugraphic, Dymo, Star/Photon, Harris, Mergenthaler, MGD Graphic Systems, and Varityper all sold the face under the name Avant Garde, while Graphic Systems Inc. ITC Avant Garde was never cast into actual foundry type, appearing first only in cold type. When ITC released the OpenType version of the font, the original 33 alternate characters and ligatures, plus extra characters were included.Įlsner+Flake also issued the ligatures and alternate characters separately as Avant Garde Gothic Alternate. The font family consists of five weights (four for condensed), with complementary obliques for widest width fonts. However, in the initial digitization, only the text design was chosen, and the ligatures and alternate characters were not included.
The original designs include one version for setting headlines and one for text copy. The condensed fonts were drawn by Ed Benguiat in 1974, and the obliques were designed by André Gürtler, Erich Gschwind and Christian Mengelt in 1977. Herb Lubalin devised the logo concept and its companion headline typeface, and then he and Tom Carnase, a partner in Lubalin's design firm, worked together to transform the idea into a full-fledged typeface. ITC Avant Garde Gothic is a geometric sans serif font family based on the logo font used in the Avant Garde magazine.
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