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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Tall flared Halloween letters with inward curls
Halloween Witchlight shows tall narrow letters with sharply flared ends, where a curled counter and stretched horizontal strokes vary a dense two-line title and the flares open at the feet and crowns of the stems.
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Minimalist display serif with italic
Nectavia is a refined minimalist serif in white over a dark green portrait: moderate contrast, smooth curves, a clean stem and sharp serifs, set in title case on one line with a small italic line beneath and three tracked notes across the top.
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Fine uppercase serifs with blade-like points and a diamond separator
Nightmare is a refined display serif with very wide capitals, high stroke contrast and small sharp spurs at the ends of the stems, set quiet and pale on a dark ground.
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Beauty serif with script accents
Rosean Monarch is a beauty serif in cream and olive on a blurred green ground: a small high-contrast serif for the article and a much larger serif for the name, with two script accents set between them and small tracked labels at the corners naming the features.
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High-contrast serif with an italic companion
The Great Nineties is a serif family in cream over a city at dusk: a high-contrast roman with fine bracketed serifs for the first line and a matching italic for the second, sold together as a pair.
Tall high-contrast serif with looping figure-eight extensions in regular and slant
Baulgante is an elegant high-contrast serif in which the stems stay narrow, the bowls round broadly and repeated figure-eight extensions loop above and below the line, and the family ships in regular and slant so a suite can shift its axis.
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Cozy 1970s retro-groovy mixed-case holiday & everyday serif
Christmas Cheer Retro is a charming, chubby retro serif by Miss Tiina with soft rounded brackets and playful mixed-case bounce (zero holiday clipart attached!).
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Old typewriter serif with a numeral row
School Vintage is an old typewriter serif in dark ink on sage green: slab serifs with slightly rounded feet, a moderate even stroke, wide spacing, shown with a ruled caption and a full numeral row.
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Heavy soft serifs with large ball-ended looping swashes
Boho Stay is a heavy soft serif in which the letters carry strong thick-thin contrast, the counters stay tight and large curled swashes with ball ends frame the capital, rise over the first row and sweep between the two title lines.
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Light high-contrast mixed case with wide open curves
Grandeur shows a light mixed-case serif with thin hairlines, broad round bowls and a wide open rhythm: the capital G trails a long fine lower spur and the d stem rises well above the lowercase line.
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High-contrast italic editorial serif
The Simple Editorial is a high-contrast italic serif in near-black on white: very fine hairlines, sharp serifs, a strong forward slant and a tall waist, shown in a full specimen with weight and width labels in a small caps grid around the display line.
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Swashed Victorian storybook & apothecary display serif
Timelapse is an ornate Victorian display serif crowned with spiraling vine swashes, teardrop terminals, and vintage apothecary charm.
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Flamboyant coiled-swash couture editorial serif
Alerigue is a high-contrast luxury editorial serif distinguished by dramatic coiled spiral terminals and sweeping calligraphic ascender loops.
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Contrasted serif with huge swash terminals
Magic Flash is a contrasted serif display in white on a dark ground: tall wide letters with hairline joins and enormous swash terminals that curl out of the M, the F and the h, with a scattering of drawn four-point stars.
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Soft retro bubble letters with hearts
Night Bubble is a soft retro display face in butter yellow: fat rounded letterforms, an offset pink shadow, and a small heart tucked into the counters of the N and the b.
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Ornamental western capitals with long curved spurs and heavy slab feet
Western Goldrush is an ornamental western serif in which the capitals carry long curved spurs, the feet flare into heavy slabs and the middle letters stay narrow, so a word reads as a saloon sign.
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Tall high-contrast capitals with pinched waists and flared tips
Brother Gothic shows white capitals in two rows over a dark portrait. Broad vertical strokes narrow sharply into fine joins, the O has an elongated oval counter, the C ends in pointed flares, and several letters squeeze at the waist to give the serif structure a theatrical edge without a broken-stroke texture.
Tall condensed classic serif with narrow bowls and fine hairlines
Fashionable is a tall condensed serif in which the stems stretch upward, the bowls narrow and the hairlines stay fine, so a single word reads as a magazine masthead rather than as a title.
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Heavy rounded retro serif with broad curling descenders
Fresh Mango shows cream mixed-case letters with thick soft strokes and narrow internal counters over a fruit photograph, where the initial F curls at its upper left, the h ends in an outward hook and the M sweeps into a large low curve that runs under the following letters.
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Light serif with ball-ended hooks and a low outward curl on the a
Gofia is a light modern serif in which the hairline joins stay delicate, the bowls run broad and round, the G and f finish in ball-ended hooks and the final a throws a low curl outward, so a short name reads as warm editorial lettering.
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Modern luxury display serif with wide caps and sharp fine serifs
Groulyn is a modern display serif in which the capitals sit wide, the contrast runs high and the serifs finish as sharp points, so a single word reads as a fashion house name rather than as a headline.
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Thin classical serif family
Sorento is a thin classical serif in near-black on a warm grey field: hairline stems, fine bracketed serifs, wide proportions and open counters, set in caps on one line with a small label and an italic attribution beneath.
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Typewriter serif with a wide even set
Standard Typewriter is a typewriter serif in black on white: slab-shaped serifs, an even stroke, wide and open letter spacing, shown as a single large line set inside a page of justified running text.
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Vintage luxury serif
Vintara Serif is a vintage luxury serif in near-black on cream: high contrast, sharp serifs, a swollen bowl and a high waist, shown at title case across the top of a mockup suite of a bag, a box, a tag, a card and a wax-sealed envelope in warm neutrals.
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