 News Gothic is similar in proportion and structure to Franklin Gothic, also designed by Benton, but lighter.News Gothic, like other Benton sans serif typefaces, follows the grotesque model, resembling serif text faces of the period, with a double-storey lower-case a and g. Also distinctive are the blunt terminus at the apex of the lowercase t, and the location of the tail of the uppercase Q completely outside the bowl.The letter forms are compact, and descenders are shallow.