NewsSerif is the sister typeface of NewsSans. Together they are a wonderful toolbox for all editorial and typographic challenges – analogue or digital. The 20 styles of NewsSerif are divided into three subfamilies named after their suggested use: Text, Large and Huge.
In developing NEWSSERIF, type designer Henning Skibbe challenged the common notion of type families:
➀ — NewsSerif and NewsSans correspond in visual style but not as closely as one might initially think. The letter forms progress and evolve throughout the styles to become more expressive in the Large and Huge families.
➁ — All roman styles from the NewsSerif Text family are bundled with italics from NewsSans. While this may appear to be an unusual pairing it makes a perfect match. The weight of the italic styles are in perfect balance with the NewsSerifs roman weights. What’s more, the typeface metrics (i.e. baseline, x-height etc.) are a seamless match.
But why? All for the sake of character. NewsSerif is far from shy. While the NewsSerif Text family is classically modest, the Large and Huge options are much more extroverted. In the larger styles the serifs cover lots of ground and become central to the design. Don’t know what we mean? Scroll down.
TRIAL fonts, licensing options and testing:
NewsSerif was conceptualized to be a Variable Font (right) from the very beginning. Three subfamilies – Text, Large, Headline – are interlaced through weight and optical size axes thus making it a perfect tool for digital or analogue editorial use.
Variable Fonts are a font technology that allows to store not only one style within a font file (Light or Regular or Bold etc.). Instead they contain a consecutive range of design variants: Everything from Light to Bold to BoldCondensed to LightCondensed and back.
The well known and most used font file formats such as OTF or TTF (left) each contain one single style of a typeface. They are not replaced by Variable Fonts and will serve their purpose for future decades to come.
Testdrive our Variable Fonts here:
The 20 styles of NewsSerif are divided into three subfamilies named after their suggested use: Text, Large and Huge.
NewsSerif has over 700 glyphs in its alphabets. You can make use of a lot of its features through OpenType: Small Caps, five different kinds of numerals, arrows, icons, ligatures etc.
Not all serifs are equal. Depending on their position – inside, out-side, top or bottom – they vary largely in length and proportion.
Because a vertical serif will never collide with its neighbour, it has the freedom to grow as large as its own inner space allows. NewsSerifs top-serifs are longer than bottom ones.
