Serif Fonts

Serif families for long text, book covers and anything that should read as considered rather than new. Check the italic before you commit: it is where cheap serifs fall apart.

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Ravors

Ravors

Rounded serifs and a wide stance give this one a warm, crafty feel rather than a formal one. Seven reviews at five stars put it among…

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Vintage Notes

Vintage Notes

Blocky mid-century serif, closer to a 1950s shopfront than to a wedding suite, which is exactly why it works as a contrast face next to a…

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Caramel

Caramel

High-contrast serif with a bohemian streak: the thick-to-thin shift is wide enough to feel hand-cut, and the alternates give you a second version of most lowercase…

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The Simplie

The Simplie

Chunky vintage serif with flat, bracketless serifs, bold enough to read across a room on a welcome sign. Comes with SVG files, so the same word…

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Strong Editorial Display

Strong Editorial Display

Fashion-magazine serif: very high contrast, flat serifs, built to be set large and tracked tight. At small sizes the hairlines drop out, so keep it for…

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Magic Avenue

Magic Avenue

An editorial serif with unusually long entry strokes, so lowercase words read almost like calligraphy at large sizes. The alternate characters are worth opening in a…

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Kinlock

Kinlock

Sophisticated serif in the luxury-branding mould: narrow, high contrast, very little in the way of flourish. It is a logo face first, which means the lowercase…

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Feeling Things

Feeling Things

Serif with calligraphic roots, so the strokes thicken the way a broad nib would rather than the way a display face does. That gives a formal…

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Elysia Serif

Elysia Serif

Balanced serif that was drawn as a book face, so the spacing holds up in paragraphs where display serifs fall apart. That makes it the practical…

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The Marselo Serif

The Marselo Serif

Display serif with brush-drawn edges, so the strokes have a slight roughness up close. At invitation size that texture reads as warmth; on a screen at…

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Pangoliery

Pangoliery

Classic serif with a very slight flare on the stems, which is the only decorative thing about it. That restraint makes it a good text companion…

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Sweet Valentine

Sweet Valentine

Soft serif with rounded, slightly swollen strokes, more 1990s greeting card than formal stationery. It reads as friendly at large sizes and loses its character below…

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Agilera

Agilera

Curvy serif with decorative swashes on the capitals, the kind of face you set a single initial in. The alternates matter here, because the plain forms…

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Brown Royal

Brown Royal

Fancy serif with long, fine serifs and a tall ascender line, built for magazine covers and reused here for invitations. Needs generous leading or the ascenders…

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Royal Knight

Royal Knight

A broad, heavy serif built for words that sit alone: a surname on a welcome board, a single word on a banner. The SVG set means…

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Torkias Jole

Torkias Jole

Bold serif with blackletter influence in the capitals, which gives a formal suite a slightly gothic edge. OTF and TTF only, so plan on desktop software…

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