League Gothic

Try League Gothic

Weights and styles

• Regular 400League Gothic Regular

League Gothic is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About League Gothic

League Gothic is a display typeface of tall, tightly packed letters with heavy, even strokes. The lowercase rises to most of the height of the capitals, counters are narrow slits, and the curves of letters such as O, C and S are flattened into straight sides, so a long headline takes up very little width. The design revives Alternate Gothic: Morris Fuller Benton drew the original in 1903 for American Type Founders, and The League of Moveable Type produced this open-source version. Tyler Finck, Micah Rich, Mirko Velimirovic and Dannci contributed to later revisions. There is one weight, Regular 400, without an italic. The file is a variable font with a width axis from 75 to 100, which squeezes the already narrow letters further. It holds 512 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, and it was added to Google Fonts in 2021.

Where League Gothic works

Newspaper-style headlines

Tall, narrow letters fit many characters into a column width, as in the 1903 original it revives.

Posters and flyers

Heavy strokes and a high lowercase make a title readable from far away while leaving room for an image.

Video thumbnails and banners

A short phrase in mixed case or capitals fills the height of a banner without running out of width.

Labels and signs

At a width setting of 75 a long word still fits a narrow label or sign panel.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with League Gothic

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use League Gothic on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "League Gothic";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LeagueGothic-Regular-VariableFont_wdth.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "League Gothic", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves League Gothic with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=League+Gothic&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One weight, no italic

League Gothic has a single Regular style. Emphasis comes from size or colour.

Variable in width only

The axis runs from 75 to 100. There is no weight axis.

It has a lowercase

Unlike all-caps headline faces, League Gothic sets mixed-case text.

Vietnamese is covered, Cyrillic and Greek are not

The character sets are Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Collections with League Gothic

• Bold fonts for posters and big headlines

  Heavy and condensed open-license display fonts that hold a sheet from across the room: gothics, slabs, fat faces and stencils.

• Condensed fonts for headlines

  Narrow sans-serif and serif display fonts that set tall, compact headlines in limited width, from hairline to heavy.

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