Thousand of freeware fonts are available today. Here are some which are actually recommendable in the category “serif”. They have a sufficient number of styles, a sufficient (Latin) character set and an acceptable stylistic and technical quality.Â
Â
Cormorant
Cormorant is a free display type family developed by Christian Thalmann. The project currently comprises a total of 45 font files spanning 9 different visual styles (Roman, Italic, Infant, Infant Italic, Garamond, Garamond Italic, Upright Cursive, Small Caps, and Unicase) and 5 weights (Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold.)
Alegreya
Alegreya is a typeface originally intended for literature. Designed by Juan Pablo del Peral for Huerta Tipográfica.
Droid Serif
Droid is a font family created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform, Android.
PT Serif
PT Serif was developed for the project "Public Types of the Russian Federation." The second family of the project, PT Sans, is also freely available.
Cardo
Cardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists. Since it may be used to prepare materials for publication, it also contains features that are required for high-quality typography, such as ligatures, text figures (also known as old style numerals), true small capitals and a variety of punctuation and space characters.
Charis SIL
Charis SIL is a Unicode-based font family that supports the wide range of languages that use the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It is specially designed to make long texts pleasant and easy to read, even in less than ideal reproduction and display environments.
Gentium
Gentium is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin- and Cyrillic-based alphabets.
Merriweather
Merriweather was designed to be a text face that is pleasant to read on screens. The Merriweather project is led by Sorkin Type, a type design foundry based in Western Massachaussets, USA
Source Serif Pro
Source Serif Pro is a set of OpenType fonts to complement the Source Sans Pro family.
Recommended Comments
There are no comments to display.
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now