Favorite Five: Free Serif Fonts
While I will always love the sparkling clean lines of a good sans-serif, many times nothing but a serif will do. Serif fonts are also known as Roman fonts, because apparently these letterforms were first carved into stone in Roman antiquity- something I just learned from this fascinating entry on Wikipedia. Today, I’m featuring five of them- and they’re all free!
Chunk
I’ve been in love with this font for quite a while now- and, really, can you blame me? Chunk is a gorgeous slab serif font that’s absolutely perfect for attention-grabbing headlines. You can also use it with @font-face, with a kit you can download here. Download ChunkFive now »
Sovereign
A modern-style serif, Sovereign is beautifully rendered with just the right curves. I especially like its capital letters. Download Sovereign now: Mac / PC PS / PC TT.
GriffosFont
Serifs are great for classical design, and by far one of the nicest classic serif fonts is Griffos. I can almost imagine it carved onto a stone in Roman antiquity- can’t you? An @font-face kit is also available. Download GriffosFont now »
Sorts Mill Goudy
I oohed and ahhed a bit when I first discovered Sorts Mill Goudy, a font so beautiful I couldn’t believe I could have it for free! Among its features are small capitals, superscripts and subscripts, fractions and ligatures. Download Sorts Mill Goudy now »
Mido
Mido falls right smack between a regular serif and a bold slab type- it’s nice and thick, without being too thick, making it good at even small sizes. A good choice if you’re looking for an @font-face serif font for your site. Download Mido now, or get the @font-face kit »
What’s your favorite serif font?
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I am quite partial to the oldie, but the reliable goodie, Rockwell
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Computer Modern Roman and Cambria.
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Download thousands of free fonts at http://www.webtoolhub.com/tn561379-fonts-collection.aspx
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Thanks for this fonts, excellent resources. My favorites from this list are GriffosFont & Sovereign.
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Thanks fir the fantastic Serifs! I’m in love with Sorts Mill Goudy and Mido, will definetly beusing them in future projects. Thanks for sharing them with us.
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I am quite partial to the oldie, but the reliable goodie, Rockwell
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Found a new site called http://www.fonts2u.com. These guys have over 20k free fonts nicely categorized
and what I really liked is the extended search they offer. You may search thru all character
maps. I was trying to find fonts with Japanese characters. I simply selected desired character
map, hit search and got fonts supporting them. Really cool and effective.