What is the New Standard font?
Designed at Polygraphmash circa 1940 (project manager Anatoly Shchukin). Based on the text typefaces of the late 19th and early 20th centuries of Obyknovennaya (Common) group.
The digital version developed at ParaType in 1996 by Vladimir Yefimov. Initially designed for a collection of works by Lenin, this typeface was widely used in Soviet Union for technical and scientific books, both for text and display.
New Standard Font families
The New Standard includes the following font families:
- New Standard
- New Standard Italic
- New Standard Bold
- New Standard Bold Italic
New Standard Preview
Here is a preview of how New Standard will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.

You're probably thinking - Is New Standard available to Download for free?
The short answer is no. New Standard is definitely not available as a free download font. This is a premium font which mean that you will have to pay to download and use it in your project. We showcase fonts on SharedFonts that are almost all premium fonts. Feel free to waste valuable hours of your time searching for a free download of New Standard, but take it from me, you will not be successful in your quest. Just think how much time and effort you will save if you just pay for New Standard and be done with it.
It is always best to pay for a premium font rather than trying to find an illegal download. The benefits of paying for New Standard is that you get the license to use it leagally. If you're using an illegal version of New Standard and you get caught, you or your client could get into some trouble legally with the publisher of New Standard.
Also it is highly unlikely that you'll be able to find New Standard for free. Doing various searches on Google such as "Free New Standard Download" you will see a lot of websites that will say "Free Download" but these are just attempts to get you to click on a link which will either take you to an ad landing page or you risk getting viruses on your computer. In the rare occasion that you do find a free download for New Standard remember that it's illegal to use a font if you didn't pay for it!
If you really want New Standard and you want to truly own it the legal and safe way, then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts.com. Here you will be able to obtain the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their work, as they have put in the hours and the creativity to produce such an amazing font. Good luck with your purchase and future use of this font. :)