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Great graphic design is powered by great font selection. But picking great fonts is a challenge most people. Luckily, Canva has made adding great fonts to your designs much easier. In this tutorial, our team of design experts will cover the best newspaper fonts in Canva.
What Are Newspaper Fonts?
Newspaper fonts are designed to be highly legible and readable at small sizes, while also conveying a sense of authority and professionalism. Some of the characteristics of newspaper fonts are:
- Serifs: Most newspaper fonts have serifs, which help guide the eye from one letter to the next and improve legibility. Serifs can be bracketed, slab, or hairline, and are often used in headlines and body text.
- High x-height: The x-height, or the height of the lowercase letters, is often higher in newspaper fonts than in other fonts. This improves legibility at small sizes and helps to distinguish between letters.
- Narrow spacing: The spacing between letters and words in newspaper fonts is often narrower than in other fonts, allowing more text to fit into a smaller space.
- Bold weight: Many newspaper fonts have a bold weight that adds weight and emphasis to the text. This helps to make headlines stand out and improves legibility.
- Classic design: Newspaper fonts often have a classic design that reflects the long history of newspapers and print journalism. This can create a sense of authority and trustworthiness.
- Condensed design: Many newspaper fonts are condensed, meaning that the letters are narrower than in other fonts. This helps to fit more text into a smaller space and improves legibility.
- Clear and legible: Newspaper fonts are designed to be clear and legible, even at small sizes. This helps readers to quickly scan and absorb the information in the newspaper.
Best Canva Newspaper Fonts
1. Lekton
Lekton has been designed at ISIA Urbino, Italy, and is inspired by some of the typefaces used on the Olivetti typewriters.
2. Fira Code
Fira Code is an extension of the Fira Mono font containing a set of ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible. This helps to read and understand code faster.
3. Roboto Mono
Roboto Mono is a monospaced addition to the Roboto-type family. Like the other members of the Roboto family, the fonts are optimized for readability on screens across a wide variety of devices and reading environments.
4. Space Mono
Space Mono is an original fixed-width type family designed by Colophon Foundry for Google Design. It supports a Latin Extended glyph set, enabling typesetting for English and other Western European languages.
5. JetBrains Mono
The JetBrains Mono project publishes developer-oriented font families. Their forms are simple and free from unnecessary details. Rendered in small sizes, the text looks crisper. The easier the forms, the faster the eye perceives them and the less effort the brain needs to process them.
6. Special Elite
Special Elite mimics the Smith Corona Special Elite Type Number NR6 and Remington Noiseless typewriter models. A little bit of inked-up grunge and a little old-school analog flavor work together to give you a vintage typewriter typeface for your website and designs.
7. Disket Mono
Disket is a display monospaced, grid-based typeface of 2 weights, regular and bold. Inspired by geometry, grids, and architecture. Designed by Mariano Diez. Cyrillic set, by Denis Ignatov.
8. Ahamono
Ahamono is a free monospaced typeface. Rounded and with a sensible “x-height” for that easy read. Free font designed by Alfredo Marco Pradil.
9. Cousine
Cousine was designed by Steve Matteson as an innovative, refreshing sans-serif design that is metrically compatible with Courier New™. Cousine offers improved on-screen readability characteristics and the pan-European WGL character set and solves the needs of developers looking for width-compatible fonts to address document portability across platforms.
10. Computer Says No
Computer Says no is a classic PC-inspired sans serif font. Imagine if your computer could speak to you – this is the font it would use.
Conclusion
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