Commercial · Sans serif · Linotype
News Gothic
News Gothic is a licensed font from Linotype: Complete family of 4 fonts: $125.99 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 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
- 1908
- Styles
- 4
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 4 fonts: $125.99 USD (Individual Styles from $40.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Morris Fuller Benton's 1908 sans for American Type Founders, a lighter relative of Franklin Gothic; this Linotype family has four styles.
Free alternatives to News Gothic
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. News Gothic 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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