Serif fonts
Serifs are the small strokes that finish each letter’s stems and terminals, a tradition inherited from carved Roman capitals and centuries of book printing. They guide the eye along a line, which is why they still anchor most long-form reading, from novels to newspapers.
52 paid serif classics with vetted free alternatives, and 60 free typefaces you can use today.
Advercase Amagro Apple Garamond Arsenica Baskerville Bauer Bodoni Bitstream Vera Serif Bookerly Butler Calvino Grande Cambria Caslon Caslon Pro Cheltenham Chronicle Display Coelacanth Display Cotford Cresci Exemplar Pro DejaVu Serif Didot Domaine Display Editorial New Feijoa Fenice Garamond Garamond Premier Pro Georgia Georgia Pro Guardian Headline Imperial Joane Lyon Means Minion 3 Minion Pro Modern No. 20 Mrs Eaves New York Palatino PF Monumenta Pro Pistilli Roman Plantin Quincy CF Rasbern Reckless Recoleta Sabon The Seasons Tiempos Times New Roman Trajanus Windsor
Free fonts Alegreya Alegreya SC Alfa Slab One Averia Serif Libre Baskervville Basteleur Besley Bitter Bodoni Moda Cardo Chango Chunk Cinzel Cormorant Cormorant Garamond Cormorant SC Crete Round Crimson Pro Crimson Text DM Serif Display Domine EB Garamond Forum Frank Ruhl Libre Fraunces Gelasio GFS Didot Gilda Display IBM Plex Serif Instrument Serif Italiana Josefin Slab Libre Baskerville Libre Bodoni Libre Caslon Display Libre Caslon Text Literata Lora Marcellus Marcellus SC Mazius Display Merriweather Newsreader Noto Serif Petrona Playfair Playfair Display Poly Prata PT Serif Quattrocento Shrikhand Solway Sorts Mill Goudy Source Serif 4 Spectral Tinos Vidaloka Yeseva One Young Serif