Harmond Font
Harmond Font is a new fresh & modern serif with a strong style, a dancing baseline! So beautiful on invitatio…
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Serif Fonts
393 free Serif Fonts to download for Windows and Mac. Serifs are the small strokes finishing each letter, and they are the reason this style has carried books, newspapers and brand identities for five centuries. The faces collected here run from quiet text romans that disappear under a paragraph to high-contrast display serifs built to be set large and admired.
Use the previews to judge the two things that matter most: how even the colour of a block of text looks, and how the capitals behave in a wordmark. Every font on this page is free to download, with the designer's license inside the archive.
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Nilota Font
Nilota Font Serif typeface is an elegantly themed font that has a dynamic serif style. The details of the sha…
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Jack Daniels Font
Jack Daniels Font is a great typeface, this Serif font family supports many international languages. This fon…
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Branch Font
Branch Font Elegant Ligature Font by Sans and Sons introducing our new “Branch” Modern Ligature with Elegant…
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Vensfolk Font
Vensfolk Font is a Modern vintage serif typeface with beautiful ligatures, tons of special alternative glyphs…
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Brewski Font
Brewski Font is a display serif font with hand-drawn Vintage style, and a touch of ornament makes this font l…
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Airwaves Font Duo
Airwaves Font Duo is a gorgeous font duo that unites condensed sans serif & signature-ish script together int…
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Restora Font
Restora Font is a mix of old-style roman serif styles. The combination of beautiful letterforms and old-style…
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Carriage Font
Carriage Font is an elegant and distinct serif font. Suitable to a wide variety of designs due to its neat an…
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Kaoly Font
Kaoly Font Unique bold serif with a lot of unique and beautiful alternate characters that you can combine to…
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Leah Gaviota Font
Leah Gaviota is a mix of multiple type of font: script, bold, outline, serif & sans-serif, that you can use t…
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The Douglas Collections Font
THE DOUGLAS COLLECTIONS — Introducing the new HUGE pack of my work. The DOUGLAS ! Comes with 12 Handmade FONT…
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Bergen Text Font
Bergen Text is the younger twin and a lifetime companion of Bergen Sans with perfect legibility and adorable…
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SUNN Line Extended Font
SUNN Line Extended Font comes in two weights – Bold and Regular, it has latin, latin extended, cyrillic lette…
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Zenzero Sans Font
Zenzero Grotesk Sans is a *Industrial based font that can be given different uses. Its main virtue is the end…
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Minty March Condensed serif font
Minty March is an adorable handwritten font that is perfect for cards, invites, logos, birthday invitations,…
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Carter Layered Font
Carters is Layered Typeface inspired by old retro signage. with the layered system you can easily make more r…
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Silk Remington Font
” NEW TYPEWRITER FONT “ Silk Remington is a new typewriter font which is developed by Jadugar Design Studio.…
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Addington CF serif font family
Reliable and workmanlike on the surface, Addington CF opens up and comes alive with its character and attenti…
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Cheddar Gothic Font Family
Cheddar Gothic is a hand drawn, 8 style typeface family including Sans, Serif, Slab, and Stencil styles with…
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Brinnan Font
Brinnan is a wide, contemporary sans serif typeface that was conceived as a branding and editorial solution.…
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Hard Stones Family Font
Hard Stones Family Hard Stones include sans, display, and script, retro combination with layered font, clean…
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Foundry font pack
We Provide You one of the best Stylish Hand Written Script. Best match for logos, header, Titles, Prints & ot…
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Fake Empire Font
A man far cleverer than me once said that we strive for excellence when mediocrity will do. That pretty much…
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How to choose a serif that holds up
Decide first whether you need a text face or a display face; the two rarely swap jobs. Text serifs have sturdy, even strokes, large counters and restrained contrast, which keeps them readable at 10 or 11 points. Display serifs push contrast and detail, which looks sharp at 40 points and turns to mush at 10. For a brand, test the name in both uppercase and lowercase, then shrink it to favicon size: if the thin strokes vanish, pick a lower-contrast cut.
Serif Fonts: common questions
- What is a serif font used for?
- Serif typefaces are the traditional choice for long-form reading — books, reports, articles — and for brands that want to feel established. High-contrast serifs also dominate fashion and editorial headlines.
- Are serif fonts good for websites?
- Yes, provided you choose one drawn for screens and set it at 16 pixels or more with generous line spacing. Text serifs with a large x-height read comfortably; delicate display serifs do not.
- What pairs well with a serif font?
- A neutral sans serif for captions, labels and interface text. Keeping one serif and one sans gives you four useful voices without the layout turning into a type specimen.