- Heading
- News Cycle
- Body text
- IBM Plex Serif
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like, serious
- The body font is made for reading
News Cycle
About the font
News Cycle is a free font by Nathan Willis, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 556 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 52% of the em and the capital height is 74%.
News Cycle is a sans-serif font by Nathan Willis, based on a revival of News Gothic, a face from 1908 by American Type Founders. It is meant for clarity in long blocks of text and also works at headline sizes. The family has 2 styles, Regular 400 and Bold 700, and 1566 glyphs. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts. It is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Author
Nathan Willis
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1566
Character and uses
- Mood
- serious
- business-like
- Design
- grotesque
- condensed
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
News Cycle has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 556 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Hausa
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Yoruba
- Igbo
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
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- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Kanuri
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Fula
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Romany
- Sicilian
- Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
…and 448 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Not included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Not included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Not included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 1564
- x-height
- 52% of the em
- Capital height
- 74% of the em
- Version
- 0.5.1
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Kerning
kern - Old-style figures
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License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/News+Cycle
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the News Cycle font free to use?
Yes. News Cycle is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does News Cycle support Cyrillic?
Yes, News Cycle includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does News Cycle support?
News Cycle covers 556 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install News Cycle?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created News Cycle?
News Cycle was created by Nathan Willis.
What is News Cycle good for?
Judging by its design, News Cycle suits: magazines and editorial, body text, headings, interfaces.
Pairs well with News Cycle
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- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like, serious
- The body font is made for reading
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