The original designs include one version for setting headlines and one for text copy.

However, in the initial digitization, only the text design was chosen, and the ligatures and alternate characters were not included.

Alphatype, Autologic, Berthold, Compugraphic, Dymo, Star/Photon, Harris, Mergenthaler, MGD Graphic Systems, and Varityper all sold the face under the name Avant Garde, while Graphic Systems Inc. offered the face as Suave.

[1] It is an OpenType variant of the original ITC Avant Garde Gothic, plus a suite of additional cap and lowercase alternates, new ligatures, unicase glyphs.

The family consists of 4 fonts in 2 weights (bold and light) in 1 width, with complementary italics.