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List of serif typefaces
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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
See also
Fixedsys
List of display typefaces
List of monospaced typefaces
List of sans serif typefaces
List of script typefaces