NewsSans
Character Type · Henning Skibbe
A 90-style sans-serif system by Henning Skibbe spanning five widths, built for editorial and corporate design at both display and text sizes.
About
Designed by Henning Skibbe for Character Type, NewsSans runs from Hairline to Black across Compressed, Condensed, Normal, Wide and Extended widths, giving designers a wide tonal range from delicate hairlines to heavy display weights. The family is screen-hinted for reliable on-screen performance and ships with over 700 glyphs alongside an extensive OpenType feature set including small caps, oldstyle figures, tabular figures and arrows. Its breadth of styles makes it viable for newspaper and magazine systems where a single typeface must cover headlines, captions and body copy simultaneously.
Classification
NewsSans is a multi-width sans-serif system with a neutral, functional character suited to editorial and corporate work, consistent with a grotesque or news grotesque tradition given its name and application range.