News Gothic font
News Gothic is a grotesque sans serif by Morris Fuller Benton, first issued by American Type Founders in 1908. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font; elsewhere its digital versions are sold by type foundries, and free revivals of it are below. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like News Cycle02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Oswald03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Public Sans04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Karla05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
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Schibsted Grotesk
Google Fonts classes it with the grotesque sans serifs
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
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Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Rethink Sans
Not measured against News Gothic: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names News Gothic or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About News Gothic
- Designed by
- Morris Fuller BentonSource: Wikipedia: News Gothic
- First issued
- American Type Founders, 1908Source: Wikipedia: News Gothic
- Class
- Grotesque sans serifSource: Wikipedia: News Gothic
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: News Gothic MTSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- Monotype
- Trademark
- News Gothic is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
News Gothic™ is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. FontKind is not affiliated with Monotype Imaging Inc., and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about News Gothic
Is News Gothic free?
The design is old enough to be revived freely, and free revivals of News Gothic are on this page. Its commercial digital versions are paid (Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel), sold by type foundries. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed News Gothic?
News Gothic was designed by Morris Fuller Benton, and first issued by American Type Founders in 1908.
Can I use News Gothic in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: News Gothic is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and News Gothic isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, News Cycle, Oswald and Public Sans are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to News Gothic?
FontKind hasn’t measured News Gothic: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. The free fonts whose own descriptions name it, or its model, are News Cycle. Beside them, Oswald, Public Sans and Karla are grotesque sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to News Gothic.