This is the revival, repair and expansion of Thomas Hollingworth’s Informal Gothic, one of the winners in VGC’s National Typeface Design competition in 1965.

Social Gothic is a unicase font that successfully achieves a hand-made look by combining standard sans serif type elements with some “chiseled” wooden shapes and friendly rounded lowercase components. The totality of the face is clean, legible, with an impact that is quite conservative and easy on the eyes, even almost humanist, in spite of the individual standard forms used.

Social Gothic was updated with many alternates and expanded language support in 2012. It now supports a very wide range of codepages, including Cyrillic, Greek, Central and Eastern European, Turkish, Baltic, Vietnamese, and of course Celtic/Welsh.