Template Gothic was designed by Deck while he was studying design at CalArts in Valencia, California in the late 80s and early 90s. CalArts was one of the first design schools to experiment with type design on the computer. Under the guidance of instructors Jeffery Keedy and Ed Fella, the program generated a wealth of type designs.
Template Gothic is an important milestone in the history of digital fonts due to its popularity but also because of the designer’s unique voice and the vernacular source he used as inspiration—a sign posted in his neighborhood laundromat.
Template Gothic was ubiquitous by the end of the 1990s, representing the aesthetic of imperfection beloved by certain designers during the postmodern era. Deck, like other type designers of the time, spoke of his desire to abandon the perfection of modernist letter forms: “I was inspired to design a face that looked as if it had suffered the distortive ravages of photo mechanical reproduction.” His typeface reflects “more truly the imperfect language of an imperfect world, inhabited by imperfect beings.”
In 2011 Template Gothic was one of 23 digital typefaces included in the permanent architecture and design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Emigre Fonts is a digital type foundry and publisher of type specimens and artist books based in Berkeley, California. From 1984 until 2005 Emigre published the legendary Emigre magazine, a quarterly publication devoted to visual communication. The Emigre font library features more than 600 original typefaces, including Mrs Eaves, Brothers, Matrix and Filosofia.
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How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
Template Gothic OT RegularWeb
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: template-gothic, sans-serif;
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: 400;
Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters
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