List of serif typefaces

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This list of samples of serif typefaces details standard serif fonts used in printing, classical typesetting and printing. Serif typefaces are generally regarded as easier to read than sans-serif fonts because they provide more detail.^[1]

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
Matrix (typeface) 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
Stempel Schneidler Designer: F.H. Ernst Schneidler Class: Old style
Theano Didot Designer: Alexey Kryukov Class: Modern
Times New 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
Walbaum Designer: Justus Erich Walbaum Class: Didone
Windsor Designer: Eleisha Pechey Class: Old style
Zilla Slab Class: Slab serif

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2020)

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