The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
League Gothic
A tightly condensed gothic display sans — the League’s open revival of ATF’s Alternate Gothic.
About League Gothic
League Gothic is a condensed gothic sans from The League of Moveable Type, an open-source reworking of American Type Founders' Alternate Gothic No. 1 (Morris Fuller Benton, 1903). Tall, narrow capitals and tight spacing pack a lot of word into a little width, with the plain, no-nonsense construction of early-twentieth-century newspaper and advertising type.
That density is the whole point: League Gothic is a headline and label face, built to set big at small measures — mastheads, posters, tickets, tables of contents — where a wider sans would run out of room. It was one of the first genuinely useful libre display faces, and it still does the job cleanly under the Open Font License, which is why we self-host it here.
- Designer
- Caroline Hadilaksono, Micah Rich & Tyler Finck
- Released
- 2009
- Available at
- The League of Moveable Type →
Display + body that work together
Letters that hold their nerve
Body type does the heavy lifting. Get it right and the reader never thinks about it; get it wrong and they feel it before they can name what is off.
Modern · Editorial League Gothic + EB Garamond
Headlines, written under pressure
A pairing is a relationship: one voice speaks first, the other answers, and the contrast between them sets the tone for the whole page.
Editorial · Modern Bodoni Moda + League Gothic