Samples of serif typefaces
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
This list of samples of serif typefaces details standard serif fonts used in printing, classical typesetting and printing.
List
Typeface name | Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3 |
---|---|---|---|
Adobe Jenson Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Aldus Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Alexandria Designer: Hank Gillette Class: Slab serif Sub-class: Geometric |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Algerian Designer: Stephen Blake, Philip Kelly Class: Decorative |
195px | 200px | 200px |
American Typewriter Designer: Joel Kaden & Tony Stan Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Arno Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Aster Designer: Francesco Simoncini Class: Modern |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Baskerville Designer: John Baskerville Class: Transitional |
195px | 200px | |
Bauer Bodoni Designer: Heinrich Jost Class: Modern |
195px | 200px | |
Bell Designer: Richard Austin Class: Modern |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Bembo Designer: Stanley Morison Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | |
Benguiat Designer: Ed Benguiat Class: Decorative |
195px | 200px | |
Bernhard Modern Designer: Lucian Bernhard Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Bodoni Designer: Giambattista Bodoni Class: Modern |
195px | 200px | |
Bookman Designer: Alexander Phemister Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | |
Bulmer Designer: William Martin Class: Transitional |
195px | ||
Caledonia Designer: William Addison Dwiggins Class: Transitional |
195px | 200px | |
Calisto Designer: Ron Carpenter Class: Old style |
195px | ||
Cambria Designer: Jelle Bosma Class: Other |
200px | 200px | |
Caslon Designer: William Caslon Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | |
Centaur Designer: Bruce Rogers Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | |
Century Schoolbook Designer: Morris Fuller Benton Class: Modern |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Chaparral Designer: Carol Twombly Class: Slab serif Sub-class: Humanist |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Cheltenham Designer: Bertram Goodhue & Ingalls Kimball Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | |
Clarendon Designer: Robert Besley Class: Slab serif |
195px | ||
Computer Modern Designer: Donald Knuth Class: Modern |
195px | ||
Constantia Class: Other |
200px | 200px | |
DejaVu Serif Class: Other |
195px | 200px | |
Didot Class: Modern |
195px | ||
Droid Class: Other |
195px | 200px | |
Emerson Designer: Joseph Blumenthal Class: Old style |
200px | 200px | |
FF Scala Designer: Martin Majoor Class: Old style |
195px | ||
Friz Quadrata Designer: Ernst Friz & Victor Caruso Class: Decorative |
195px | 200px | |
Garamond Designer: Claude Garamond & Jean Jannon Class: Old style |
195px | ||
Gentium Designer: Victor Gaultney Class: Other |
195px | 200px | |
Georgia Designer: Matthew Carter Class: Transitional |
200px | ||
Goudy Old Style Designer: Frederic Goudy Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Granjon Designer: George W. Jones Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | |
Hoefler Text Designer: Jonathan Hoefler Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | |
Janson Designer: Chauncey H. Griffith Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Joanna Designer: Eric Gill Class: Transitional |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Junicode Designer: Peter S. Baker Class: Old style |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Korinna Designer: Ed Benguiat & Vic Caruso Class: Decorative |
195px | ||
Linux Libertine Class: Other |
200px | ||
Literaturnaya Designer: Anatolii Shchukin Class: Transitional |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Lucida Bright Designer: Charles Bigelow & Kris Holmes Class: Other |
195px | 200px | 200px |
Minion Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style |
200px | ||
Mrs Eaves Designer: Zuzana Licko Class: Transitional |
200px | ||
MS Serif | 195px | 200px | |
New York Designer: Susan Kare, Charles Bigelow, and Kris Holmes Class: Transitional |
200px | ||
Nilland Designer: Manfred Klein Class: Slab serif |
200px | ||
Palatino Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Old style |
200px | ||
Perpetua Designer: Eric Gill Class: Transitional |
195px | ||
Rawlinson Roadway Designer: James Montalbano Class: Old style |
|||
Requiem Designer: Jonathan Hoefler Class: Old style |
200px | ||
Rockwell Class: Slab serif |
195px | 200px | |
Rotis Designer: Otl Aicher Class: Other |
200px | 200px | |
Sabon Designer: Jan Tschichold Class: Old style |
200px | 200px | |
Theano Didot Designer: Alexey Kryukov Class: Modern |
200px | ||
Times New Roman Designer: Stanley Morison Class: Transitional |
200px | ||
Utopia Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Didone |
200px | ||
Windsor Designer: Eleisha Pechey Class: Old style |
Additional serif typefaces
-
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
- Book Antiqua (Monotype's imitation of Palatino)
- Espy Serif
- Legacy Serif
- Liberation Serif
- Plantin
- Renault
- Roman (vector font included with Windows 3.1)
- Sistina
- Souvenir
- Sreda
- Stone Serif
- Versailles