The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Urbanist
A free alternative to Century Gothic.
About Urbanist
- Designer
- Corey Hu
- Released
- 2020
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 3 paid font pages
Urbanist is also a free alternative to…
- Century Gothic → Built from elementary geometric shapes with low contrast and open counters, Urbanist captures Century Gothic's airy roundness in a more neutral, modern voice. A full variable axis from Thin to Black gives it far more range than the original.
- Gilroy → A low-contrast Modernist geometric sans whose spacing, proportions, and terminal treatment sit remarkably close to Gilroy. Available as a variable font across nine weights plus italics, it matches Gilroy's wide range for building a full type system.
- Google Sans → A low-contrast geometric built from elementary shapes, slightly wider and airier than Google Sans. Its lighter weights capture the clean Material-marketing look well.
Display + body that work together
Headlines, written under pressure
Two thousand years of letterforms boil down to a handful of decisions — width, weight, proportion. Pick a pair you trust, and let the rest take care of itself.
Modern · Editorial Urbanist + Source Serif 4
Quiet type that does the work
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 Playfair Display + Urbanist