The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Source Serif 4
A free alternative to Baskerville.
About Source Serif 4
- Designer
- Frank Grießhammer
- Released
- 2014
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 5 paid font pages
Source Serif 4 is also a free alternative to…
- Baskerville → Adobe's open-source old-style serif with optical-size axes. Less of a literal Baskerville descendant than Libre Baskerville, but shares the transitional-tradition rationalism — a workhorse choice across body, subhead, and display sizes from one family.
- Caslon → Adobe's open-source old-style serif. Less of a direct Caslon descendant than Libre Caslon, but the same workhorse register and a comprehensive optical-size axis — good when one family needs to serve display, subhead, and body.
- Garamond → Adobe's open-source old-style serif, drawn by Frank Grießhammer with optical-size axes. Neutral and reliable — the workhorse choice when you need Garamond's voice across body, subhead, and display sizes from a single family.
- Sabon → Adobe's open-source old-style serif with optical-size axes. The 20th-century descendant of the same Garamond-family tradition Sabon refined, with comprehensive sizing for body, subhead, and display from one family.
- Times New Roman → Adobe's open-source old-style serif. Less of a literal Times match than Tinos, but the same workhorse register at body-text sizes — and the optical-size axes give clean small-text and display variants from one family.
Display + body that work together
Headlines, written under pressure
A pairing is a relationship: one voice speaks first, the other answers, and the contrast between them sets the tone for the whole page.
Editorial · Modern Source Serif 4 + DM Sans
Quiet type that does the work
Two thousand years of letterforms boil down to a handful of decisions — width, weight, proportion. Pick a pair you trust, and let the rest take care of itself.
Modern · Editorial Switzer + Source Serif 4