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Download nowDesigners: Aldo Novarese, Patrick Griffin
Publisher: Canada Type
Press Gothic was designed by Aldo Novarese, Patrick Griffin and published by Canada Type. Press Gothic contains 4 styles and family package options.  

Press Gothic is a revival of Aldo Novarese's Metropol typeface, released by Nebiolo in 1967 as a competitor to Stephenson Blake's Impact (designed by Goeffrey Lee). Though Metropol enjoyed a few short months of popularity and use in Italy, Germany and France, Impact won the technological outlasting battle by moving on to film type then to computer outlines bundled with mainstream software, while Metropol never made it past the metal state until now. Too bad really, since this is one of the few faces that could have played well with all the horrendous stretch'n'squeezing of the 1970s.

Just like its inspiration, Press Gothic aims to be a fresh alternative to big economical poster fonts with clear sans serif forms and an urgent, strong, yet elegant design appeal.

In the summer of 2008, Press Gothic underwent a major linguistic and aesthetic reworking for an international publishing company. The result of this on the retail side are new small capitals and biform/unicase additions to the main font, as well as expanded language support that includes Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, Baltic, Central and Eastern European, Maltese, and Esperanto.

Press Gothic Pro, the OpenType version, combines all three fonts into one, taking advantage of the small caps feature, and the stylistic alternate feature for the biform shapes.

Font Family:
· Press Gothic Pro
· Press Gothic Regular
· Press Gothic SC
· Press Gothic Biform


File Size: 19.44 MB


Tags: 1960s, central europe, condensed, condensed gothic, economic, economical, film, gangster, gaspipe, generic, geometric, gothic, grotesk, headline, impact, italian, letterhead, logo, magazine, movie, movie credits, narrow, news, news headline, poster, sans-serif, small caps, standard

Release date: July 18, 2007

You can use this font for:
- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
- Website publishing: create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
- PDFs: embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
- Video and broadcast: use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content and more
- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)

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