Some typophiles trace the heritage of the ITC Avant Garde Gothic® family to the geometric sans serif typefaces produced by Bauhaus designers in the mid-1920s. Actually, the design has its foundation in the first sanserif ever produced: a cap-only face issued by the Caslon Type Foundry in 1816. The characters in this design set the standard for the basic geometric shapes, found not only in ITC Avant Garde Gothic but also in virtually every geometric sans serif produced since 1816.

A single weight, cap-only version of ITC Avant Garde Gothic was first created for Avant Garde magazine in the late 1960s. In the early 1970s, a lowercase and additional weights were drawn and the resulting family became was one of the first text and display typeface designs released by ITC. ITC Avant Garde Gothic continues to build its legacy as the 19th typeface on last month's Top 100 Web Fonts list.

Here's the complete list for Jaunuary:

Neue Helvetica

Trade Gothic

Avenir

Avenir Next

Futura

Soho

Slate

Brandon Grotesque

Neue Swift

Charcuterie

Proxima Nova

Gill Sans

DIN Next

Helvetica

Neo Sans

Univers

Thirsty Script

Century Gothic

ITC Avant Garde Gothic

PMN Caecilia

Frutiger

Rockwell

ITC Caslon No. 224

Neue Helvetica Compressed

Zapfino Extra

Times

Bodoni LT

Monotype Baskerville

Harmonia Sans

Veneer

Linotype Didot

Optima

Melany Lane

Naive Inline

Eurostile LT

Minion

ITC Lubalin Graph

Snell Roundhand

Cochin

Fairfield

University

Harley Davidson Letterpress

Museo Sans

Swift

ITC American Typewriter

Myriad

ITC Franklin Gothic

VAG Rounded

Neue Helvetica eText

Linotype Univers

Swiss 721

Chaparral

Shelley Script

Courier PS

Tahoma

M Yuen HK

ITC Edwardian Script

Granjon

French Script

Bernhard Modern

Joanna

ITC Tiffany

Felix Titling

Engravers

Gloucester

Citadel Script

C Xing Kai PRC

Vladimir Script

Linoscript

Flemish Script

Helinda Rook

Alana

Estilo

Chevalier

Sassoon Infant

Fette Fraktur

Caslon Open Face

Bernhard Fashion

Liberty

Commercial Script

Skitch

C Xing Kai HK

AT Uncial

Wedding Text

Linotext

ITC Tempus Serif

Sho

Fling

Ruling Script

Kepler

Calibri

Museo

Frutiger Next

Neue Frutiger

Arial

ITC Fenice

Soho Gothic

Orator

Papyrus

Trajan