Commercial · Sans serif · Linotype
News Gothic No. 2
News Gothic No. 2 is a licensed font from Linotype: Complete family of 12 fonts: $392.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 4 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. News Gothic No. 2 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
- Released
- 1984
- Styles
- 12
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 12 fonts: $392.99 USD (Individual Styles from $40.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
D. Stempel AG's 1984 enhancement of News Gothic with more weights than other versions; 12 styles built on Benton's 1908 lighter weights and the bold weights added in 1958.
Free alternatives to News Gothic No. 2
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. News Gothic No. 2 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 Libre Franklin webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Franklin.
same classification
An open interpretation of Benton's Franklin Gothic, a sibling design from the same ATF gothic series; slightly heavier and wider than News Gothic.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Archivo Narrow webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo Narrow.
same classification
A narrow grotesque from the same American gothic idiom; close in feel to News Gothic's condensed styles.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Work Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Work Sans.
same classification
Based on early grotesques; matches the plain, even texture at text sizes.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Public Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Public Sans.
same classification
A neutral interface gothic derived from Libre Franklin; usable where News Gothic would be, though slightly larger on the body.
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