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This list of samples of serif typefaces details standard serif fonts used in printing, classical typesetting and printing.

List of samples

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
ITC Lubalin Graph
Designer: Herb Lubalin
Class: Slab serif
Lucida Bright
Designer: Charles Bigelow & Kris Holmes
Class: Other
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
Souvenir
Designer: Morris Fuller Benton
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
Windsor
Designer: Eleisha Pechey
Class: Old style
Zilla Slab
Class: Slab serif

Additional serif typefaces

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

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