Commercial · Serif · Linotype
New Century Schoolbook LT
New Century Schoolbook LT is a licensed font from Linotype: Complete family of 6 fonts: $125.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. New Century Schoolbook LT is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Morris Fuller Benton, Linotype Design Studio
- Released
- 1915
- Styles
- 2
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Complete family of 6 fonts: $125.99 USD (Individual Styles from $40.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Linotype's version of Benton's Century Schoolbook, a legible, fairly narrow text face with little stroke contrast descended from Linn Boyd Benton's 1894 Century; two styles on MyFonts.
Free alternatives to New Century Schoolbook LT
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. New Century Schoolbook LT is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Merriweather webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Merriweather.
commonly substituted
A sturdy screen serif with a very large x-height and open forms; the same legibility brief Benton pursued, though heavier.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Domine webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Domine.
same classification
Designed and tested for body text on the web, combining classic elements; a comparable low-contrast, open text serif.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The PT Serif webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not PT Serif.
same classification
A transitional text serif with open forms and even colour; narrower than Century Schoolbook.
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