News Cycle

Try News Cycle

Weights and styles

• Regular 400News Cycle Regular
• Bold 700News Cycle Bold

About News Cycle

News Cycle is a realist sans serif built for newspaper work: long blocks of copy first, with headlines at the top of the page as the second job. The official notes trace it to a revival of the 1908 News Gothic issued by American Type Founders. In the specimen the letters are narrow and upright, the strokes keep an even thickness, and the Regular is light enough to leave plenty of white inside the counters. The family has two static fonts, Regular and Bold, and no italic. Where the project goes beyond its source is in character coverage: the files hold 1,566 glyphs with subsets for Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Greek. Nathan Willis leads the project and holds the copyright. News Cycle was added to Google Fonts in 2011.

Where News Cycle works

News sites and blogs

The narrow letters were modelled on a newspaper face, so columns of copy stay economical without looking squeezed.

Stacked headlines

Bold at large sizes keeps a tall, tight headline shape that fits long titles on one or two lines.

Multilingual publications

Cyrillic and Greek glyphs let Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Greek editions share the look of the Latin pages.

Captions and data labels

The light, even strokes of Regular stay clear in picture captions and chart annotations.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with News Cycle

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use News Cycle on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "News Cycle";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/NewsCycle-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "News Cycle";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/NewsCycle-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "News Cycle", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves News Cycle with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=News+Cycle:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

News Cycle ships Regular and Bold only. Emphasis has to come from Bold or from a slant the browser synthesises.

An early version number

The fonts report version 0.5.1 in their name table.

Large glyph set for two fonts

Each file carries 1,566 glyphs, far more than the basic Latin alphabet needs, because of the Cyrillic, Greek and extended Latin additions.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts