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Open licence · Serif

Newsreader

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Newsreader webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Newsreader.

Newsreaderthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

low x-heightnormal widthhigh contrast

Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.

Fonts similar to Newsreader, measured

Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Newsreader, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Mate webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Mate.

Mateslightly narrower bowls

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Joan webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Joan.

Joanclose on every measure

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Ponomar webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Ponomar.

Ponomarslightly narrower bowls

These are the first 3 of 746 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.

What $39 buys →

Newsreader as a free alternative to

Newsreader is suggested on 12 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.

In the app

Search the whole open catalogue by name, category and measured character, preview every result in your own words, and save it to a Board. Open the app — the shelf, search and the first three results of any search are free.