The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
New York vs Newsreader
Two screen-first serifs built around optical sizes. New York is Apple's transitional serif companion to San Francisco, shipped with four optical sizes and six weights for Apple Books and iOS, while Newsreader is Production Type's open-source serif commissioned by Google Fonts for long-form reading in content-dense news and publishing layouts.
New York is a commercial font, so it is shown here in Source Serif 4, its closest free alternative. All free alternatives to New York →
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
- New York is a proprietary Apple typeface: it is free to download but licensed only for designing or mocking up software on Apple platforms, so it can't be self-hosted on a public website or used in cross-platform products.
- Newsreader is released under the SIL Open Font License and served by Google Fonts, so it can be embedded, self-hosted, and modified without cost.
- New York ships as four static optical-size families (Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large), each in six weights, and covers Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic.
- Newsreader ships as a variable font with weight and optical-size axes (opsz 6 to 72), spanning seven weights from caption through text to display cuts for expressive headlines.
- New York is drawn to pair with San Francisco and match Apple's system UI, whereas Newsreader was shaped around continuous on-screen reading in news streams and publishing platforms.
New York
Reach for New York when you're designing a native Apple app or mock-up and want a serif that sits naturally beside San Francisco inside Apple's own ecosystem.
Newsreader
Reach for Newsreader for editorial websites, article pages, and long-form reading on any platform, where its variable optical sizes and open license let you tune it freely.