The Best Free Serif Fonts
Some of the best, free Serif Fonts I’ve found
Vollkorn is the first typeface designed by Friedrich Althausen. First published in 2005.
It intends to be a quiet, modest and high quality text face for bread and butter use. It might be used in body copy, or just as well for headlines and titles. Vollkorn (pronounced Follkorn) is German for wholemeal which refers to the old term Brotschrift which stood for the small fonts for every day use.
In May 2020, it was updated to be a variable Font with a weight axis in both Roman and Italic.
Gilland is a modern and decorative serif typeface made by Andreu Gallart Ruiviejo. Gilland contains 480 glyphs, including symbols, diacritics, characters, kerning pairs, small caps.
This font can work for texts, headlines, logos, corporate images and more.
“Butler by Fabian De Smet is a free serif font inspired by a mix between both Dala Floda & the amazing Bodoni family. The main goal was to bring a bit of modernism to serif fonts by working on the curves of classical serif font families and adding an extra stencil family.
Great for posters, very big titles, books & fancy stuff, the highly contrasted Butler font is pleased to be at your service.
The Butler family contains a total of 334 characters, 7 regular weights and 7 stencil weights, text figures, ligatures, fractions and a lot more. It also suits many languages with its added glyphs.”
Playfair by Claus Eggers Sørensen takes influence from the designs of John Baskerville and from ‘Scotch Roman’ designs. Being a Display (large size) design in the transitional genre, functionally and stylistically it can accompany Georgia for body text.
Updated November 2017 with many small improvements and additional language support. The family has been converted to a variable font in August 2019.
Quando by Joana Correia is a serif typeface inspired by brushy handwritten letters seen on an Italian poster from the second world war. Quando is a flexible text typeface made for the web whose personality consistently shows in both small and large sizes. Quando's low contrast design helps it work better on screens and smaller sizes.
Quando's friendly feeling along with its clarity and familiarity makes it suitable for a broad range of uses.
Old Newspaper Types by Manfred Klein is a vintage distressed newspaper font with ink distortions, perfect for old newspaper type ads and other similar projects. Has extensive language support covering all Latin alphabet based languages.
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