![]() ![]() ![]() But New Baskerville definitely feels a notch or two friendlier and homier. I’d say some of the same commentary applies. Century Gothic and New BaskervilleĪt first glance, a Century Gothic and New Baskerville combination looks very similar to a Century Gothic and Minion combination. Minion is a recent take from the 1990’s on classic Renaissance-era typefaces, like Caslon. It feels more modern and less serious than the Century Gothic / Caslon combo, though Minion and Caslon share the same typeface classification. I could see this working really well in a user manual that needed to be a little copy heavy, but have a friendly feel to it at the time. This is a pretty friendly combination, and the two typefaces here seem to have a happy rapport between them. The section headers in Century Gothic would be bold, easily scannable in a long document you might be flipping through, and would efficiently guide you and drop you off in the right section of serious-business content set in Caslon. I could see this combination working in a context where there is a lot of serious-subject copy, like financial or legal disclosures, where there might be a large number of section headers. Caslon is definitely a more formal typeface with narrow glyph widths, which creates contrast with the wide-set stance of Century Gothic. They work together but it’s not a great match, but it can work in the right context. So when we move on to Caslon, we are in a context of a lot more text. ![]() Bodoni is not a body font for any length of text for sure. Here is a combination we can do a lot more body copy with. It seems like this would be a great combination to use in a poster for modern classical music concert. Century Gothic is commanding and friendly, but not to the point of being casual or warm. It’s got a strong sense of classic authority because of the nature of Bodoni, but it also has a modern friendliness to it. This combination looks like it would work best in a display context, like a poster or a flyer. If you are interested in what books we either make or might make for font combinations, the best thing to do is subscribe to the newsletter (either to the right or down below if you are on your mobile device). So, let’s see what fonts work with Century Gothic, pulling from a list of classic typefaces we keep handy, and see what kind of look and feel we can get going.īut first, a quick poll on what you really need: Pick one answer, see the results, and then keep reading: If you compare Century Gothic and Futura in a variety of settings, you’ll see that to a large degree they can be used interchangeably. The perpendicular cut of Futura seems to make it feel more “serious”, where Century Gothic feels a bit less formal. For instance, notice how the terminals of the letter “C” (and other letters) differ from each other in this illustration (which I reconstructed from an uncredited source on Pinterest): We just did a post on fonts that look great with Futura, and now we are continuing on to Century Gothic.Ĭentury Gothic is similar in some fundamental ways to Futura, but has some very unique differences that clearly set it apart. If you do a google search for “what fonts go with…”, you’ll see Futura, Century Gothic, Bebas, and a few other suggestions pop up in the auto-suggest tool. ![]()
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