This list of samples of serif typefaces details standard serif fonts used in printing, classical typesetting and printing.
List of samples
Samples of serif typefaces| Typeface name | Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Jenson Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style | |||
| Albertus Designer: Berthold Wolpe Class: Glyphic | |||
| Aldus Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Old style | |||
| Alexandria Designer: Hank Gillette Class: Slab serif Sub-class: Geometric | |||
| American Typewriter Designer: Joel Kaden & Tony Stan Class: Old style | |||
| Amiri Designer: Dr. Khaled Hosny Class: Naskh Arabic | |||
| Archer Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones & Jonathan Hoefler Class: Slab serif | |||
| Arno Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style | |||
| Aster Designer: Francesco Simoncini Class: Modern | |||
| Athelas Designer: Veronika Burian, Jose Scaglione | |||
| Baskerville Designer: John Baskerville Class: Transitional | |||
| Bauer Bodoni Designer: Heinrich Jost Class: Modern | |||
| Bell Designer: Richard Austin Class: Modern | |||
| Bembo Designer: Stanley Morison Class: Old style | |||
| Benguiat Designer: Ed Benguiat Class: Decorative | |||
| Bernhard Modern Designer: Lucian Bernhard Class: Old style | |||
| Bodoni Designer: Giambattista Bodoni Class: Modern | |||
| Bookman Designer: Alexander Phemister Class: Old style | |||
| Bookerly Class: Other | |||
| Bulmer Designer: William Martin Class: Transitional | |||
| Caledonia Designer: William Addison Dwiggins Class: Transitional | |||
| Calisto Designer: Ron Carpenter Class: Old style | |||
| Cambria Designer: Jelle Bosma Class: Other | |||
| Caslon Designer: William Caslon Class: Old style | |||
| Centaur Designer: Bruce Rogers Class: Old style | |||
| Century Schoolbook Designer: Morris Fuller Benton Class: Modern | |||
| Chaparral Designer: Carol Twombly Class: Slab serif Sub-class: Humanist | |||
| Bitstream Charter Designer: Matthew Carter Class: Transitional, Slab serif | |||
| Cheltenham Designer: Bertram Goodhue & Ingalls Kimball Class: Old style | |||
| City Designer: Georg Trump Class: Slab serif | |||
| Clarendon Designer: Robert Besley Class: Slab serif | |||
| Cochin Designer: Georges Peignot, Matthew Carter Class: Transitional | |||
| Computer Modern Designer: Donald Knuth Class: Modern | |||
| Constantia Designer: John Hudson Class: Other | |||
| Constructium Designer: Rebecca Bettencourt Class: Other | |||
| Copperplate Gothic Designer: Frederic Goudy Class: Wedge serif | |||
| DejaVu Serif Class: Other | |||
| Didot Class: Modern | |||
| Droid Serif Designer: Steve Matteson Class: Other | |||
| Emerson Designer: Joseph Blumenthal Class: Old style | |||
| FF Scala Designer: Martin Majoor Class: Old style | |||
| Footlight Designer: Ong Chong Wah | |||
| Friz Quadrata Designer: Ernst Friz & Victor Caruso Class: Decorative | |||
| ITC Galliard Designer: Matthew Carter Class: Old style | |||
| Garamond Designer: Claude Garamond & Jean Jannon Class: Old style | |||
| Gentium Designer: Victor Gaultney Class: Other | |||
| Georgia Designer: Matthew Carter Class: Transitional | |||
| Goudy Old Style Designer: Frederic Goudy Class: Old style | |||
| Granjon Designer: George Wallace Jones Class: Old style | |||
| Hoefler Text Designer: Jonathan Hoefler Class: Old style | |||
| Iowan Old Style Designer: John Downer Class: Old style | |||
| Janson Designer: Chauncey H. Griffith Class: Old style | |||
| Joanna Designer: Eric Gill Class: Transitional | |||
| Junicode Designer: Peter S. Baker Class: Old style | |||
| Korinna Designer: Ed Benguiat & Vic Caruso Class: Decorative | |||
| Liberation Serif Designer: Steve Matteson Class: Other | |||
| Linux Libertine Designer: Philipp H. Poll Class: Transitional | |||
| Literata Designer: Google & TypeTogether Class: Scotch, Old style | |||
| Literaturnaya Designer: Anatolii Shchukin Class: Transitional | |||
| ITC Lubalin Graph Designer: Herb Lubalin Class: Slab serif | |||
| Matrix Designer: Zuzana Licko | |||
| Memphis Designer: Rudolf Wolf Class: Slab serif | |||
| Minion Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style | |||
| Mrs Eaves Designer: Zuzana Licko Class: Transitional | |||
| MS Serif Designer: Microsoft | |||
| New York Designer: Susan Kare, Charles Bigelow, and Kris Holmes Class: Transitional | |||
| Nilland Designer: Manfred Klein Class: Slab serif | |||
| Palatino Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Old style | |||
| Perpetua Designer: Eric Gill Class: Transitional | |||
| Plantin Designer: Christophe Plantin Class: Old style | |||
| IBM Plex Serif Designer: Mike Abbink Class: Transitional, Scotch | |||
| Rawlinson Roadway Designer: James Montalbano Class: Old style | |||
| Requiem Designer: Jonathan Hoefler Class: Old style | |||
| Roboto Slab Designer: Christian Robertson Class: Slab serif | |||
| Rockwell Class: Slab serif | |||
| Rotis Designer: Otl Aicher Class: Other | |||
| Sabon Designer: Jan Tschichold Class: Old style | |||
| Serifa Designer: Adrian Frutiger Class: Slab serif | |||
| Source Serif Pro Designer: Frank Grießhammer Class: Transitional | |||
| Souvenir Designer: Morris Fuller Benton | |||
| Theano Didot Designer: Alexey Kryukov Class: Modern | |||
| Times Roman Designer: Stanley Morison Class: Transitional | |||
| Trajan Designer: Carol Twombly Class: Old Style | |||
| Trinité Designer: Georg Trump Class: Humanist serif | |||
| Trump Mediaeval Designer: Bram de Does Class: Old Style | |||
| Utopia Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Didone | |||
| Weiss Antiqua Designer: Emil Rudolf Weiss Class: Old style | |||
| Windsor Designer: Eleisha Pechey Class: Old style | |||
| Zilla Slab Class: Slab serif |
Additional serif typefaces
- Algerian
- Allegro
- Aurora
- Belwe Roman
- Book Antiqua (Monotype's imitation of Palatino)
- Berkeley Old Style
- Candida
- Cartier
- Century Old Style
- Charis SIL
- Cholla Slab
- Clearface
- Concrete Roman
- Corona
- Doves Type
- Egyptienne
- Elephant
- Excelsior
- Fairfield
- Guardian Egyptian
- Hightower Text
- Imprint
- Lexicon
- Lexia
- Miller
- Renault
- Roman (vector font included with Windows 3.1)
- Skeleton Antique
- Sylfaen
- Tower
- XITS