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Newport Gothic
Roger White made Newport Gothic in 1993 and released it through his own site, where he placed his whole collection in the public domain. It is a sans serif in two styles, Regular and Italic, with a light-to-regular weight and normal width, and like the rest of White's fonts it began as hand-drawn artwork that was scanned, cleaned up and compiled with hinting and kerning. It turns up in "GT America vs" searches because both are plain gothics, but Newport Gothic is a single-weight hobbyist face, not an 84-style system. These free grotesques give you that broader range, loadable from a CDN.
The closest font to Newport GothicThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Display + body that work together
Pages that earn the read
Body type does the heavy lifting. Get it right and the reader never thinks about it; get it wrong and they feel it before they can name what is off.
Modern · Editorial Libre Franklin + Source Serif 4
Quiet type that does the work
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
Editorial · Modern Playfair Display + Libre Franklin
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Common questions about Newport Gothic alternatives
- Is Newport Gothic free?
- Yes — Newport Gothic is a free typeface. Roger White declared all fonts on his site public domain for personal and commercial use, asking only for acknowledgement; it is downloadable free from FontSpace and 1001 Free Fonts. If you need a similar font you can load from a CDN, the closest is Libre Franklin, available on Google Fonts.
- What font is similar to Newport Gothic?
- Libre Franklin is the closest free match. A revival of Morris Fuller Benton's Franklin Gothic, the American gothic model that Newport Gothic's name and plain forms gesture toward. It gives the same unfussy register in nine weights with italics, so it covers headings and body text where the two-style original cannot.
- Can I use Libre Franklin in commercial projects?
- Yes — Libre Franklin is published under a free license on Google Fonts and can be used in commercial work. Confirm the license text at the source before shipping.