
It's just too risky going about finding free fonts online. The benefits of paying for Franklin Gothic™ are that you get the license, and if you're caught using it illegally there could be some potential legal implications with the publisher of this particular typeface.įurthermore, when searching "free downloads" on Google, most websites will say they have them but these types of offers usually come at a cost - either something like high-pressure sales tactics or getting tricked into downloading malware onto your computer by malicious third parties who want access to all your personal information! It is always best to pay for a premium font rather than trying to find an illegal download. You can find some other great options here on as well that will save you time looking around all over the web. If you want to use Franklin Gothic™ then I suggest just paying for it and downloading Franklin Gothic™ HERE. You know the fonts on this site are premium, right? Franklin Gothic™ is not a free font. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here. Here is a preview of how Franklin Gothic™ will look.


The Franklin Gothic™ includes the following font families: The type appears dark and monotone overall, giving it a robustly modern look.įranklin Gothic is still one of the most widely used sans serifs it’s a suitable choice for newspapers, advertising and posters. Recognizable aspects of Franklin Gothic include the two-story a and g, subtle stroke contrast, and the thinning of round strokes as they merge into stems. More…īenton was a prolific designer, and he designed several other sans serif fonts, including Alternate Gothic, Lightline Gothic and News Gothic. Franklin Gothic may have been named for Benjamin Franklin, though the design has no historical relationship to that famous early American printer and statesman. There were already many gothics in America in the early 1900s, but Benton was probably influenced by the popular German grotesks: Basic Commercial and Reform from D. Early types without serifs were known by the misnomer “gothic” in America (“grotesque” in Britain and “grotesk” in Germany).

Franklin Gothic was designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company in 1903-1912.
