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.

Commercial reference font No preview: commercial font, described from its sources

ITC Avant Garde Gothic

We compared against TeX Gyre Adventor, which CTAN describes: β€œthe URW font is commonly used as a substitute for the ITC original.” (CTAN page, read 2026-10-22)

Original History The original font, ITC Avant Garde Gothic, was designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase in 1970
CSS fallback font stack
font-family: "ITC Avant Garde Gothic", "Google Sans", sans-serif;

Use ITC Avant Garde Gothic when installed on the visitor's device, automatically falling back to Google Sans (closest open lookalike).

ITC Avant Garde Gothic Licence & Permissions

Commercial font: the licence comes from whoever sells it.

ITC Avant Garde Gothic LicenceLicence unknown
Commercial workUnknown
Logo or wordmarkUnknown
WebsiteUnknown
App or gameUnknown
Modify the fontUnknown
Share the font fileUnknown
Sell the font fileUnknown
No credit needed in your workUnknown

Side-by-side comparison

Top lookalikes compared at the same size
#1 Lookalike Google Sans Similarity 75 OFL-1.1
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#2 Lookalike Poppins Similarity 75 OFL-1.1
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#3 Lookalike Albert Sans Similarity 74 OFL-1.1
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Top lookalikes: licence permissions

Commercial rights side by side
Google SansOFL-1.1
Commercial workAllowed
Logo or wordmarkAllowed
WebsiteAllowed, with conditions
App or gameAllowed, with conditions
Modify the fontAllowed, with conditions
Share the font fileAllowed, with conditions
Sell the font fileNot allowed
No credit needed in your workAllowed
PoppinsOFL-1.1
Commercial workAllowed
Logo or wordmarkAllowed
WebsiteAllowed, with conditions
App or gameAllowed, with conditions
Modify the fontAllowed, with conditions
Share the font fileAllowed, with conditions
Sell the font fileNot allowed
No credit needed in your workAllowed
Albert SansOFL-1.1
Commercial workAllowed
Logo or wordmarkAllowed
WebsiteAllowed, with conditions
App or gameAllowed, with conditions
Modify the fontAllowed, with conditions
Share the font fileAllowed, with conditions
Sell the font fileNot allowed
No credit needed in your workAllowed

All 12 open lookalikes, ranked

Comparison based on letter shape and edge texture
#1
Similarity 75 β€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#2
Poppins OFL-1.1
Similarity 75 β€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#3
Similarity 74 β€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#4
DM Sans OFL-1.1
Similarity 73 β€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#5
Urbanist OFL-1.1
Similarity 73 β€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#6
Similarity 70 β€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#7
Similarity 69 β€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#8
Manrope OFL-1.1
Similarity 68 β€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#9
Similarity 68 β€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#10
Similarity 68 β€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#11
Similarity 68 β€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
#12
Liter OFL-1.1
Similarity 68 β€” 100 = identical letters, 0 = an average pair
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Fonts made for other scripts with similar Latin letters

How the similarity score works

Each score is calculated by comparing 62 letters and digits (A-Z a-z 0-9) rendered at a 160px cap height on a 32Γ—32 grid with 3px gaussian blur, combined with edge-orientation texture (weighted at 15%).

Scores are normalized on a standardized scale: 100 represents identical letterforms, and 0 represents an average pair among the 1571 fonts compared.

Computed on 2026-10-22 using glyph-shape + edge-texture v2.