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Free alternatives to Century Gothic

Century Gothic is a commercial geometric sans from Monotype. Bundled with Office under its EULA; web use needs a Monotype license. Below are the 8 closest free, open-licensed families in the BrandSweets library, ranked by our published, deterministic score — classification, measured proportions, traits, role, language and variable support. Each one is shown in its own face and is free to self-host.

Century Gothic is a trademark of its owner, named here only to identify the typeface. We do not host, embed or distribute it; “similar” means similar classification and proportions, nothing more.

  1. #176% matchcurated picksansOFL-1.1 · Joe Prince, Laura Meseguer
    Questrial

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

    Wide geometric with the same pure circles and single-storey 'a'.

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    Classification×0.35
    100%
    Same class: geometric.
    Metrics×0.25
    67%
    x-height 0.50 vs 0.53 for Century Gothic (close); cap height 0.66 vs 0.72 for Century Gothic (noticeably different); normal width vs wide for Century Gothic; both low stroke contrast.
    Traits×0.20
    50%
    Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 4 traits).
    Role×0.10
    67%
    Both suit body, heading.
    Language×0.05
    50%
    Covers latin, latin-ext; lacks cyrillic, greek.
    Variable×0.05
    100%
    Static instances, like Century Gothic.
    Family gate
    Same family: sans.
    View Questrial specimen →Pairings →400
  2. #277% matchcurated picksansOFL-1.1 · Owen Earl
    Jost

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

    Futura-style geometric with Century Gothic's round bowls at a narrower width.

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    Classification×0.35
    100%
    Same class: geometric.
    Metrics×0.25
    68%
    x-height 0.46 vs 0.53 for Century Gothic (noticeably different); cap height 0.70 vs 0.72 for Century Gothic (close); normal width vs wide for Century Gothic; both low stroke contrast.
    Traits×0.20
    50%
    Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 4 traits).
    Role×0.10
    67%
    Both suit body, heading.
    Language×0.05
    75%
    Covers cyrillic, latin, latin-ext; lacks greek.
    Variable×0.05
    100%
    Static instances, like Century Gothic.
    Family gate
    Same family: sans.
    View Jost specimen →Pairings →100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900
  3. #383% matchsansOFL-1.1 · Mikhail Sharanda
    Manrope

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

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    Classification×0.35
    100%
    Same class: geometric.
    Metrics×0.25
    85%
    x-height 0.54 vs 0.53 for Century Gothic (near-identical); cap height 0.72 vs 0.72 for Century Gothic (near-identical); normal width vs wide for Century Gothic; both low stroke contrast.
    Traits×0.20
    50%
    Shares clean, geometric, monoline (3 of 6 traits).
    Role×0.10
    67%
    Both suit body, heading.
    Language×0.05
    100%
    Covers all of Century Gothic's subsets (cyrillic, greek, latin, latin-ext).
    Variable×0.05
    100%
    Static instances, like Century Gothic.
    Family gate
    Same family: sans.
    View Manrope specimen →Pairings →200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800
  4. #481% matchsansOFL-1.1 · Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral, Jacques Le Bailly
    Montserrat Alternates

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

    Show score breakdown
    Classification×0.35
    100%
    Same class: geometric.
    Metrics×0.25
    81%
    x-height 0.53 vs 0.53 for Century Gothic (near-identical); cap height 0.70 vs 0.72 for Century Gothic (close); normal width vs wide for Century Gothic; both low stroke contrast.
    Traits×0.20
    50%
    Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 4 traits).
    Role×0.10
    67%
    Both suit body, heading.
    Language×0.05
    75%
    Covers cyrillic, latin, latin-ext; lacks greek.
    Variable×0.05
    100%
    Static instances, like Century Gothic.
    Family gate
    Same family: sans.
    View Montserrat Alternates specimen →Pairings →100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900
  5. #580% matchsansOFL-1.1 · Cadson Demak
    Prompt

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

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    Classification×0.35
    100%
    Same class: geometric.
    Metrics×0.25
    85%
    x-height 0.54 vs 0.53 for Century Gothic (near-identical); cap height 0.71 vs 0.72 for Century Gothic (near-identical); normal width vs wide for Century Gothic; both low stroke contrast.
    Traits×0.20
    50%
    Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 4 traits).
    Role×0.10
    67%
    Both suit body, heading.
    Language×0.05
    50%
    Covers latin, latin-ext; lacks cyrillic, greek.
    Variable×0.05
    100%
    Static instances, like Century Gothic.
    Family gate
    Same family: sans.
    View Prompt specimen →Pairings →100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900
  6. #680% matchsansOFL-1.1
    Wix Madefor Display

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

    Show score breakdown
    Classification×0.35
    100%
    Same class: geometric.
    Metrics×0.25
    78%
    x-height 0.49 vs 0.53 for Century Gothic (close); cap height 0.71 vs 0.72 for Century Gothic (near-identical); normal width vs wide for Century Gothic; both low stroke contrast.
    Traits×0.20
    50%
    Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 4 traits).
    Role×0.10
    67%
    Both suit body, heading.
    Language×0.05
    75%
    Covers cyrillic, latin, latin-ext; lacks greek.
    Variable×0.05
    100%
    Static instances, like Century Gothic.
    Family gate
    Same family: sans.
    View Wix Madefor Display specimen →Pairings →400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800
  7. #780% matchsansOFL-1.1 · NaN
    Unbounded

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

    Show score breakdown
    Classification×0.35
    100%
    Same class: geometric.
    Metrics×0.25
    85%
    x-height 0.57 vs 0.53 for Century Gothic (close); cap height 0.75 vs 0.72 for Century Gothic (close); both wide width; both low stroke contrast.
    Traits×0.20
    40%
    Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 5 traits).
    Role×0.10
    67%
    Both suit body, heading.
    Language×0.05
    75%
    Covers cyrillic, latin, latin-ext; lacks greek.
    Variable×0.05
    100%
    Static instances, like Century Gothic.
    Family gate
    Same family: sans.
    View Unbounded specimen →Pairings →200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900
  8. #879% matchsansOFL-1.1 · Dmitri Voloshin, Andrey Kudryavtsev
    Onest

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

    Show score breakdown
    Classification×0.35
    100%
    Same class: geometric.
    Metrics×0.25
    84%
    x-height 0.53 vs 0.53 for Century Gothic (near-identical); cap height 0.71 vs 0.72 for Century Gothic (near-identical); normal width vs wide for Century Gothic; both low stroke contrast.
    Traits×0.20
    40%
    Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 5 traits).
    Role×0.10
    67%
    Both suit body, heading.
    Language×0.05
    75%
    Covers cyrillic, latin, latin-ext; lacks greek.
    Variable×0.05
    100%
    Static instances, like Century Gothic.
    Family gate
    Same family: sans.
    View Onest specimen →Pairings →100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900
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Use Questrial instead

Questrial is the top-ranked alternative to Century Gothic (76%) and is free to self-host under OFL-1.1. Drop these @font-face rules into your CSS — the .woff2 files are served straight from BrandSweets.

css
@font-face {
  font-family: "Questrial";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/questrial/questrial-400.woff2") format("woff2");
}

/* Usage */
.heading { font-family: "Questrial", sans-serif; }

What we compare Century Gothic on

Class
geometric
x-height
0.53 ≈
Cap height
0.72 ≈
Width · contrast
wide · low
Traits
geometric, clean, retro, monoline
Roles
heading, body
Languages · variable
latin, latin-ext, cyrillic, greek · no

≈ proportions are publicly documented approximations of the regular cut, not measured by us. Open-font metrics are measured from the files. Full formula and thresholds: methodology. Machine-readable: alternatives.md

Questions

Is Century Gothic free?
No. Century Gothic is a commercial typeface from Monotype. Bundled with Office under its EULA; web use needs a Monotype license. The fonts listed here are free, open-licensed alternatives you can download, self-host and use commercially.
What is the closest free alternative to Century Gothic?
Questrial scores 76% against Century Gothic on our published formula. Wide geometric with the same pure circles and single-storey 'a'. It is licensed OFL-1.1, so it is free to self-host.
How are these alternatives ranked?
By a fixed, published score — 0.35 classification, 0.25 measured proportions (x-height, cap height, width, stroke contrast), 0.20 traits, 0.10 role, 0.05 language coverage, 0.05 variable support — after a family gate: specialist families (blackletter, script, glyphic, stencil, monospace) only list same-family fonts, and any cross-family match is capped at 0.2. No model or vote; the same inputs always give the same ranking. Hand-curated picks are labelled and listed first.

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