# Fonts Like ITC Avant Garde Gothic

12 open fonts whose letters are closest to ITC Avant Garde Gothic, ranked by a glyph comparison. All free for commercial use.

## Quick Answer

The closest open font to ITC Avant Garde Gothic is Google Sans (similarity 75), then Poppins and Albert Sans. Google Sans is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is free for commercial use.

## Reference Font Profile

- **Family**: ITC Avant Garde Gothic
- **Kind**: stand-in font (no preview: commercial font, described from its sources)
- **Licence**: unknown
- **Stand-in Comparison**: We compared against TeX Gyre Adventor, which CTAN describes: "the URW font is commonly used as a substitute for the ITC original."
- **Sources**:
  - [why the stand-in, original designers](https://ctan.org/pkg/tex-gyre-adventor) (read 2026-10-22)

### Fallback CSS Stack

```css
font-family: "ITC Avant Garde Gothic", "Google Sans", sans-serif;
```

## Ranked Open Lookalikes (12 Fonts)

| Rank | Font | Similarity Score | Licence | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| #1 | **Google Sans** | 75 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/google-sans/](/fonts/google-sans.md) |
| #2 | **Poppins** | 75 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/poppins/](/fonts/poppins.md) |
| #3 | **Albert Sans** | 74 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/albert-sans/](/fonts/albert-sans.md) |
| #4 | **DM Sans** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/dm-sans/](/fonts/dm-sans.md) |
| #5 | **Urbanist** | 73 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/urbanist/](/fonts/urbanist.md) |
| #6 | **Plus Jakarta Sans** | 70 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/plus-jakarta-sans/](/fonts/plus-jakarta-sans.md) |
| #7 | **Host Grotesk** | 69 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/host-grotesk/](/fonts/host-grotesk.md) |
| #8 | **Manrope** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/manrope/](/fonts/manrope.md) |
| #9 | **Rethink Sans** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/rethink-sans/](/fonts/rethink-sans.md) |
| #10 | **TikTok Sans** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/tiktok-sans/](/fonts/tiktok-sans.md) |
| #11 | **TASA Explorer** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/tasa-explorer/](/fonts/tasa-explorer.md) |
| #12 | **Liter** | 68 / 100 | OFL-1.1 | [/fonts/liter/](/fonts/liter.md) |

## Other Scripts With Similar Latin Letters

- **Kripa** (Deva): Similarity 71, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/kripa/](/fonts/kripa.md)
- **Fustat** (Arab): Similarity 71, licence OFL-1.1 - [/fonts/fustat/](/fonts/fustat.md)

## Scoring Method

62 letters and digits (A-Z a-z 0-9) rendered at 160px cap height on a 32x32 grid with 3px gaussian blur, combined with edge-orientation texture (15% weight). Scores are normalized so that 0 represents an average pair of fonts across the 1571 compared fonts, and 100 represents identical letter shapes. Computed on 2026-10-22 using glyph-shape + edge-texture v2.

## Machine API

JSON representation available at [/api/fonts-like/itc-avant-garde-gothic.json](/api/fonts-like/itc-avant-garde-gothic.json).