Roman, transitional & modern serifs
Five hundred and twenty-one serif faces spanning old-style text roman, high-contrast editorial cuts and wedding-ready display serifs. Useful whenever the design needs authority rather than personality.
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Editorial serif with a sharp italic
Scholar Typeface is an editorial serif in black and red on white: a high-contrast roman with sharp bracketed serifs for the first word and a matching italic in red for the second, with a credit line in small capitals beneath.
Modern contrasted serif
Semica is a modern serif in rust brown on a soft grey ground: high contrast, fine bracketed serifs, tall narrow stems and a light waist, set in caps on one line with a curved label above and a tracked line beneath.
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Heavy playful serif
Spooky Witchy is a heavy serif in cream on near-black: broad uneven caps with wide slab feet, a curled K leg and slightly rotated letterforms, with a script line above and a mixed line beneath that names the style.
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Clean travel-postage & passport monoline typewriter serif
Stamps Writer is a neat, slender monoline typewriter serif inspired by vintage postage cancels, travel passports, and archival index cards.
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Elegant serif with italic
Starlight Branch is an elegant serif in cream over a dark portrait: moderate-to-high contrast, soft serifs and an open aperture, with the second word set in an italic that leans well past the roman, and tracked caps in all four corners naming the style, the studio, the formats and the language support.
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High-contrast serif with ornamental spirals
Sundan is a beautiful serif in cream over a warm photograph: high contrast, wide letters, and ornamental spirals that leave the S and the d, one rising above the word and one curling below it, with a small badge at the foot.
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Didone family with italic
Superhits is a didone family in white over a portrait: extreme thick-to-thin contrast, unbracketed hairline serifs, a period that reads as a solid dot, and an italic companion whose lean is gentle enough for captions.
Contrasting title with upright lower row
The New Elegance is a pair of settings in cream over a portrait: a slanted high-contrast title in mixed case above, and a heavy upright line beneath in the same family, with an italic serif caption under that and a round studio stamp in the upper right.
High-contrast modern serif with italic companion
The Sargent is a high-contrast modern serif in roman and italic: wide-tracked light capitals, a hairline-bracket on every serif, and an italic that leans with a calligraphic tail, shown in soft window light on a plain wall.
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Elegant serif with elongated swash cap
Thomas is an elegant serif in cream over a portrait photograph, with a capital T whose swash runs back over the whole word and settles into a curl, ball terminals on the lower case and a fine hairline contrast through the rest of the letters.
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Victorian-style luxury serif
Victorian Luxury is a formal serif in white on a textured grey-green ground: high contrast, fine hairline serifs, tall narrow capitals with small spurs, and a thin gold frame around the specimen with ornamental filigree at the corners.
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Weathered woodcut & iron-press grunge Western serif
Vintage Strong is a bold, classic Western-style display serif textured with authentic iron-stamp speckles and worn press contours.
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High-contrast display serif
Vioner is a high-contrast display serif in gold over a dark portrait: massive stems with hairlines as thin as rules, a looping N diagonal that crosses the following letter and long flared serifs, set as one wide word with tracked notes at the top and a credit below.
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Elegant high-contrast serif with ligature detail
Vogue Chola is an elegant serif in cream on a warm sculptural interior: extreme contrast, fine square serifs, a long ligature between the first two letters, and a four-point star set into the counter of one letter.
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Elegant serif with dramatic swashes
Wonder is an elegant serif in cream on a warm blurred portrait: high contrast, a W drawn with long diagonal strokes, and a d whose ascender turns into a swash that loops back over the word and ends in a fine point.
Fine lowercase name with diagonal crossings and a long low g loop
Agifter shows white lowercase lettering over a sofa photograph: very fine joins contrast with broad curved sides, the g descends into an open loop beneath the middle and the f rises into a rounded upper curl.
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Chunky rounded retro letters with intertwined low swashes
Aloha Chunky shows yellow-orange stacked lettering with brown outlines and offset dark edges, where broad rounded bodies, bulbous terminals and rolled entries make the words feel dense, the upper A keeps a triangular counter and the h and a finish in wide curls that collect beneath the lower line.
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Fine mixed-case lettering with paired g loops and a large upper curl
Anggun is a fine mixed-case serif in which the capital opens broad, the lowercase rounds, two g letters drop adjacent loops beneath the middle of the name and a large fine circular stroke rises above them, so a word reads as linked script lettering.
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Broad mixed-case serif forms with fine diagonal cuts and a low g loop
Angkle shows pale lettering across a deep red field beside a portrait, where the capital A has a very fine left diagonal and a low crossbar while the lowercase n and g keep substantial rounded sides and narrow internal joins.
Heavy uppercase shapes with speckled interiors and small flared feet
Artemisia shows substantial black capitals on weathered cream paper: the upright strokes and broad diagonals carry scattered pale speckles, the R ends its leg sharply, the A opens a compact triangular counter and small flared feet close each stem.
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Slanted serif words with broad looped A and C initials
Arthouse Cinema shows black two-line lettering on warm cream, where both words lean right with fine serifs and substantial rounded bowls, and the capital A begins in a low curled entry before rising into its diagonal body.
Wide fashion serif with tall ascenders and hairline serifs
Artisan Paris is a wide fashion serif in which the letters open generously, the serifs thin to hairlines and the ascenders stretch, so a two-word title reads as a printed lookbook cover.
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Contrasting capitals with an oversized low S loop and open P bowl
Aslyper shows brown capitals on a pale mottled field: heavy diagonal and curved strokes meet very fine serifs, the initial A opens a tall triangular counter and the S sweeps far below the main line while the P bowl rises into a large rounded loop.
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Fine mixed case with an extended k top and a deep curled leg
Becki shows pale cream lettering over a dark orange portrait. The capital B has a broad open lower bowl, the e carries a thin horizontal crossbar and the c ends in a rounded inward terminal, while the k rises into a long leftward top stroke and drops into a broad curling leg beneath the final i.
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