# Free alternatives to Century Gothic

Century Gothic is a commercial geometric sans from Monotype (https://www.myfonts.com/collections/century-gothic-font-monotype-imaging). Bundled with Office under its EULA; web use needs a Monotype license. The name is used only to identify the typeface; BrandSweets does not host or embed it. Below: the 8 closest free, open-licensed families, ranked by a published deterministic score (https://brandsweets.com/fonts/alternatives/methodology).

## Reference profile

- Slug: `century-gothic`
- Category: sans · Class: geometric
- Traits: geometric, clean, retro, monoline
- Roles: heading, body
- Metrics: x-height 0.53, cap height 0.72, wide width, low contrast (approximate, publicly documented)
- Languages: latin, latin-ext, cyrillic, greek · Variable: no
- Page: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/alternatives/century-gothic

## Score

`score = 0.35·classification + 0.25·metrics + 0.20·traits + 0.10·useCase + 0.05·language + 0.05·variable`; every axis in [0, 1]. A family gate runs first: specialist families (blackletter, script, glyphic, stencil, monospace, pixel) only list same-family fonts; elsewhere a cross-family mismatch is capped at 0.2. Curated picks are listed first, then pure formula; ties break on popularity, then slug.

## Ranked alternatives

### 1. Questrial — 76% (curated)

- Slug: `questrial` · sans · OFL-1.1 · Joe Prince, Laura Meseguer · static
- Page: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/questrial · font.md: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/questrial/font.md
- Why (curated): Wide geometric with the same pure circles and single-storey 'a'.
- Classification (×0.35): 1.00 — Same class: geometric.
- Metrics (×0.25): 0.67 — 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): 0.50 — Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 4 traits).
- Role (×0.10): 0.67 — Both suit body, heading.
- Language (×0.05): 0.50 — Covers latin, latin-ext; lacks cyrillic, greek.
- Variable (×0.05): 1.00 — Static instances, like Century Gothic.
- Family gate: pass — Same family: sans.

### 2. Jost — 77% (curated)

- Slug: `jost` · sans · OFL-1.1 · Owen Earl · static
- Page: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/jost · font.md: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/jost/font.md
- Why (curated): Futura-style geometric with Century Gothic's round bowls at a narrower width.
- Classification (×0.35): 1.00 — Same class: geometric.
- Metrics (×0.25): 0.68 — 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): 0.50 — Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 4 traits).
- Role (×0.10): 0.67 — Both suit body, heading.
- Language (×0.05): 0.75 — Covers cyrillic, latin, latin-ext; lacks greek.
- Variable (×0.05): 1.00 — Static instances, like Century Gothic.
- Family gate: pass — Same family: sans.

### 3. Manrope — 83%

- Slug: `manrope` · sans · OFL-1.1 · Mikhail Sharanda · static
- Page: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/manrope · font.md: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/manrope/font.md
- Classification (×0.35): 1.00 — Same class: geometric.
- Metrics (×0.25): 0.85 — 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): 0.50 — Shares clean, geometric, monoline (3 of 6 traits).
- Role (×0.10): 0.67 — Both suit body, heading.
- Language (×0.05): 1.00 — Covers all of Century Gothic's subsets (cyrillic, greek, latin, latin-ext).
- Variable (×0.05): 1.00 — Static instances, like Century Gothic.
- Family gate: pass — Same family: sans.

### 4. Montserrat Alternates — 81%

- Slug: `montserrat-alternates` · sans · OFL-1.1 · Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral, Jacques Le Bailly · static
- Page: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/montserrat-alternates · font.md: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/montserrat-alternates/font.md
- Classification (×0.35): 1.00 — Same class: geometric.
- Metrics (×0.25): 0.81 — 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): 0.50 — Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 4 traits).
- Role (×0.10): 0.67 — Both suit body, heading.
- Language (×0.05): 0.75 — Covers cyrillic, latin, latin-ext; lacks greek.
- Variable (×0.05): 1.00 — Static instances, like Century Gothic.
- Family gate: pass — Same family: sans.

### 5. Prompt — 80%

- Slug: `prompt` · sans · OFL-1.1 · Cadson Demak · static
- Page: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/prompt · font.md: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/prompt/font.md
- Classification (×0.35): 1.00 — Same class: geometric.
- Metrics (×0.25): 0.85 — 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): 0.50 — Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 4 traits).
- Role (×0.10): 0.67 — Both suit body, heading.
- Language (×0.05): 0.50 — Covers latin, latin-ext; lacks cyrillic, greek.
- Variable (×0.05): 1.00 — Static instances, like Century Gothic.
- Family gate: pass — Same family: sans.

### 6. Wix Madefor Display — 80%

- Slug: `wix-madefor-display` · sans · OFL-1.1 · static
- Page: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/wix-madefor-display · font.md: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/wix-madefor-display/font.md
- Classification (×0.35): 1.00 — Same class: geometric.
- Metrics (×0.25): 0.78 — 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): 0.50 — Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 4 traits).
- Role (×0.10): 0.67 — Both suit body, heading.
- Language (×0.05): 0.75 — Covers cyrillic, latin, latin-ext; lacks greek.
- Variable (×0.05): 1.00 — Static instances, like Century Gothic.
- Family gate: pass — Same family: sans.

### 7. Unbounded — 80%

- Slug: `unbounded` · sans · OFL-1.1 · NaN · static
- Page: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/unbounded · font.md: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/unbounded/font.md
- Classification (×0.35): 1.00 — Same class: geometric.
- Metrics (×0.25): 0.85 — 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): 0.40 — Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 5 traits).
- Role (×0.10): 0.67 — Both suit body, heading.
- Language (×0.05): 0.75 — Covers cyrillic, latin, latin-ext; lacks greek.
- Variable (×0.05): 1.00 — Static instances, like Century Gothic.
- Family gate: pass — Same family: sans.

### 8. Onest — 79%

- Slug: `onest` · sans · OFL-1.1 · Dmitri Voloshin, Andrey Kudryavtsev · static
- Page: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/onest · font.md: https://brandsweets.com/fonts/onest/font.md
- Classification (×0.35): 1.00 — Same class: geometric.
- Metrics (×0.25): 0.84 — 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): 0.40 — Shares geometric, monoline (2 of 5 traits).
- Role (×0.10): 0.67 — Both suit body, heading.
- Language (×0.05): 0.75 — Covers cyrillic, latin, latin-ext; lacks greek.
- Variable (×0.05): 1.00 — Static instances, like Century Gothic.
- Family gate: pass — Same family: sans.

## Self-host Questrial (woff2)

- 400 normal: https://fonts.brandsweets.com/questrial/questrial-400.woff2

## Connect an agent

Point any MCP client at the BrandSweets fonts endpoint to get this list with scores, or search the catalog:

- Endpoint: https://mcp.brandsweets.com/fonts/mcp
- Tools: `find_alternatives` (e.g. `find_alternatives({ commercialFont: "century-gothic", limit: 8 })`), `list_commercial_fonts`, `list_fonts`, `suggest_fonts`.