What is the Press Gothic™ font?
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. More…
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.
Press Gothic™ Font families
The Press Gothic™ includes the following font families:
- Press Gothic Pro
- Press Gothic Regular
- Press Gothic SC
- Press Gothic Biform
Press Gothic™ Preview
Here is a preview of how Press Gothic™ will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
You're probably thinking - Is Press Gothic™ available to Download for free?
The short answer is no. Press Gothic™ is definitely not available as a free download font. This is a premium font which mean that you will have to pay to download and use it in your project. We showcase fonts on SharedFonts that are almost all premium fonts. Feel free to waste valuable hours of your time searching for a free download of Press Gothic™, but take it from me, you will not be successful in your quest. Just think how much time and effort you will save if you just pay for Press Gothic™ and be done with it.
It is always best to pay for a premium font rather than trying to find an illegal download. The benefits of paying for Press Gothic™ is that you get the license to use it leagally. If you're using an illegal version of Press Gothic™ and you get caught, you or your client could get into some trouble legally with the publisher of Press Gothic™.
Also it is highly unlikely that you'll be able to find Press Gothic™ for free. Doing various searches on Google such as "Free Press Gothic™ Download" you will see a lot of websites that will say "Free Download" but these are just attempts to get you to click on a link which will either take you to an ad landing page or you risk getting viruses on your computer. In the rare occasion that you do find a free download for Press Gothic™ remember that it's illegal to use a font if you didn't pay for it!
If you really want Press Gothic™ and you want to truly own it the legal and safe way, then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts.com. Here you will be able to obtain the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their work, as they have put in the hours and the creativity to produce such an amazing font. Good luck with your purchase and future use of this font. :)
