a playful workhorse in the style of early gothic typefaces
About Kanton Gothic
Kanton Gothic is a workhorse family heavily inspired by the work of Morris Fuller Benton. Although the family comes in several familiar weights with corresponding italics, Kanton Gothic transports a lot of character through its distinct shapes and the additional heavy poster cut.
Compared to its role models, Kanton Gothic has an overall friendlier appearance, higher contrast, more balanced proportions and eye-catching pointed endings. The sufficient selection of styles in combination with the large language support and extensive OpenType features make it an ideal choice for editorial and branding projects.
Use the heavy and thinner weights of Kanton Gothic in headlines, for citations and on big posters. The medium weights are suitable for body copy and will give a contemporary and warm touch to paragraphs. You can also nicely pair it with a serif typeface of your choice or do some fancy animations with the two axis variable font included in the family pack!
- ▸Released in 2020
- ▸Contemporary Grotesque
- ▸Thin to Bold with Italics
- ▸Special Poster style
- ▸605 Glyphs
Please note that this preview font only includes basic upper- and lowercase letters as well as standard figures. No kerning and OpenType features are included. Please see reference images or the specimen PDF for full functionality.
OpenType-Features
All styles of Kanton Gothic come with essential features for editorial and branding usage — speaking of alternates, standard ligatures, case-sensitive forms and tabular figures.
- ▸Stylistic Alternates (for a and g)
- ▸Standard Ligatures
- ▸Discretionary Ligatures
- ▸Contextual Alternates
- ▸Case sensitive Forms
- ▸Tabular Figures
- ▸Superior and Inferior Figures
- ▸Dynamic Fractions
- ▸Slashed Zero
Language Support
Thanks to the coverage of the Latin-Extended-A Unicode range, Kanton Gothic supports most modern Latin languages. Actually, containing some additional accented glyphs, you can set text in 215 languages. If you still think your language isn't supported, you can look up the full list below or in the specimen.
- Complete list of supported languages
Abenaki • Afaan Oromo • Afar • Afrikaans • Albanian • Alsatian • Amis • Anuta • Aragonese • Aranese • Aromanian • Arrernte • Arvanitic (Latin) • Asturian • Atayal • Aymara • Bashkir (Latin) • Basque • Belarusian (Latin) • Bemba • Bikol • Bislama • Bosnian • Breton • Cape Verdean Creole • Catalan • Cebuano • Chamorro • Chavacano • Chichewa • Chickasaw • Cimbrian • Cofán • Cornish • Corsican • Creek • Crimean Tatar (Latin) • Croatian • Czech • Danish • Dawan • Delaware • Dholuo • Drehu • Dutch • English • Esperanto • Estonian • Faroese • Fijian • Filipino • Finnish • Folkspraak • French • Frisian • Friulian • Gagauz (Latin) • Galician • Ganda • Genoese • German • Gikuyu • Gooniyandi • Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) • Guadeloupean Creole • Gwich’in • Haitian Creole • Hän • Hawaiian • Hiligaynon • Hopi • Hotcąk (Latin) • Hungarian • Icelandic • Ido • Igbo • Ilocano • Indonesian • Interglossa • Interlingua • Irish • Istro-Romanian • Italian • Jamaican • Javanese (Latin) • Jèrriais • Kaingang • Kala Lagaw Ya • Kapampangan (Latin) • Kaqchikel • Karakalpak (Latin) • Karelian (Latin) • Kashubian • Kikongo • Kinyarwanda • Kiribati • Kirundi • Klingon • Kurdish (Latin) • Ladin • Latin • Latino sine Flexione • Latvian • Lithuanian • Lojban • Lombard • Low Saxon • Luxembourgish • Maasai • Makhuwa • Malay • Maltese • Manx • Māori • Marquesan • Megleno-Romanian • Meriam Mir • Mirandese • Mohawk • Moldovan • Montagnais • Montenegrin • Murrinh-Patha • Nagamese Creole • Nahuatl • Ndebele • Neapolitan • Ngiyambaa • Niuean • Noongar • Norwegian • Novial • Occidental • Occitan • Onĕipŏt • Oshiwambo • Ossetian (Latin) • Palauan • Papiamento • Piedmontese • Polish • Portuguese • Potawatomi • Q’eqchi’ • Quechua • Rarotongan • Romanian • Romansh • Rotokas • Sami (Inari Sami) • Sami (Lule Sami) • Sami (Northern Sami) • Sami (Southern Sami) • Samoan • Sango • Saramaccan • Sardinian • Scottish Gaelic • Serbian (Latin) • Seri • Seychellois Creole • Shawnee • Shona • Sicilian • Silesian • Slovak • Slovenian • Slovio (Latin) • Somali • Sorbian (Lower Sorbian) • Sorbian (Upper Sorbian) • Sotho (Northern) • Sotho (Southern) • Spanish • Sranan • Sundanese (Latin) • Swahili • Swazi • Swedish • Tagalog • Tahitian • Tetum • Tok Pisin • Tokelauan • Tongan • Tshiluba • Tsonga • Tswana • Tumbuka • Turkish • Turkmen (Latin) • Tuvaluan • Tzotzil • Uzbek (Latin) • Venetian • Vepsian • Volapük • Võro • Wallisian • Walloon • Waray-Waray • Warlpiri • Wayuu • Welsh • Wik-Mungkan • Wiradjuri • Wolof • Xavante • Xhosa • Yapese • Yindjibarndi • Zapotec • Zazaki • Zulu • Zuni
Glyph Set
Kanton Gothic comes with 605 glyphs, covering the Latin Extended-A Unicode range and providing you several useful options for editorial and branding usage — like stylistic sets, various symbols and circled numbers.
To get an overview of the full glyph set, all styles, OpenType-Features and text samples you can download the specimen below.
Specimen & Trials
To get a complete overview of all features, the glyph set and range of cuts you can download the specimen. It is designed to work not only for information on screen, but to be printed out to get an impression of appearence in different sizes on paper.
You can also go straight to testing the typefaces in your favorite layout program: Our test fonts package can be downloaded for free and contains all of our previously published typefaces!