10 Awesome Free Serif Fonts
Apr 23rd by Andrew Houle  |  stashed in Compilations  
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Series Overview

Intro

This is the second part of a five part series featuring my favorite free fonts for design. This compilation will focus on ten very useful serif fonts. These fonts are perfect for print copy and large headings. Check them out!

1. Andron Freefont  [ Download ]

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2. Droid Serif  [ Download ]

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3. Garogier  [ Download ]

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4. Gentium Basic  [ Download ]

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5. Latin Modern Roman  [ Download ]

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6. Museo  [ Download ]

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7. Optimus Princeps  [ Download ]

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8. Sanford  [ Download ]

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9. Serif Beta  [ Download ]

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10. Tallys  [ Download ]

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Your Thoughts?

What free serif fonts do you have in your designer’s toolbox that I should have featured here?

About the Author

Andrew is the founder and primary contributer for MyInkBlog. He is a full time web developer for Niagara University. When he's not working there, he's a blogger, twitter'er, wordpress'er, silverstripe advocate, blessed father and husband.

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29 responses so far.

  1. Tim Smith
    April 23, 2009

    Awesome list!! Sanford and Museo are my favs.

  2. Danh ba web 2.0
    April 24, 2009

    great font. Thanks you very much
    You can see more font: http://tr.im/iBLA

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  3. José Mota
    April 24, 2009

    Computer Modern Serif is also a great serif font, especially for print. It is used by LaTeX, after which it gets its fame.

    http://www.identifont.com/show?763

    Nice list, Andrew, they surely look clean!

  4. Andrew Houle
    April 24, 2009

    @Jose – Nice addition, looking to download that now :)

  5. Zachary Schweitzer
    April 24, 2009

    Great list. Thanks so much for pointing out some high quality, free serifs. I feel like all to often I just default to minion when I’m looking for a serif. These will be a great change of pace.

    Zachary Schweitzer´s last post was… Paper-based Image Editing!

  6. Vishesh
    April 24, 2009

    We want more modern serif fonts! The list is pretty nice, but there’s a real lack of good and free modern serif fonts like Rockwell. The only one that comes close, is Museo. :)

  7. Thomas
    April 24, 2009

    Thanks, I really love “Andron Freefont”

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  8. Andrew Houle
    April 24, 2009

    @Vishesh – I would separate Rockwell style fonts into slab serif. I wasn’t sure if Museo belonged on this list because it’s a bit of a hybrid between the two. Either way, I was after purely, simple and stylish serif fonts for this list. Hopefully you’ll enjoy the next three categories in this series.

  9. Donar
    April 25, 2009

    Impressive fonts!

  10. Kendall
    April 25, 2009

    FontSquirrel is a resource for designer and has a ton of free fonts, all with commercial licenses. http://www.fontsquirrel.com

    Kendall´s last post was… Adding Navigation Buttons in WordPress

  11. Will Sherwood
    April 26, 2009

    Cool that you do this… Will

    Will Sherwood´s last post was… Clement Mok

  12. T-Law
    April 27, 2009

    Perfect list, thanks.

    T-Law´s last post was… Freebies: 15 Music Vectors

  13. Zach Dunn
    April 27, 2009

    @Andrew

    Seriously behind on my RSS feeds lately. I was about 50% on the fonts here already, thanks for the rest.

    Also, great to see you got the author comment highlighting up and running. Looks great!

    Zach Dunn´s last post was… 17 Action Packed Single Page Sites

  14. Andrew Houle
    April 28, 2009

    @Zach – np, I hope you find some good uses for them!

    Thanks again for the author commenting code, I love revamping the commenting here on MIB… it all goes toward a better design community experience.

  15. bitlimakina
    May 1, 2009

    thanks perfect fonts

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  16. Stephen Tiano
    May 1, 2009

    Nice ones. I included Gentium when I blogged about free fonts for book design and layout last year. I can tell from the way you’ve listed, tho’, and I wondered: which are complete families of roman, ital, bold, and bold ital?

    Stephen Tiano´s last post was… Those About to Blog … I Salute You

  17. Mike H
    May 11, 2009

    Nice list, I downloaded a few as a result.
    The link to Gentium Basic is incorrect though, it’s pointing to the Droid Serif page.

    Mike H´s last post was… Arrows

  18. Vikas
    May 11, 2009

    Fantabulous collection! Thanks for sharing

  19. Andrew Houle
    May 12, 2009

    @Mike H – Thanks for the heads up. I got that link update now :)

  20. Salvador
    May 12, 2009

    Hey! It may be a stupid question, but… I don’t know how to download Museo from MyFonts.com. any help it’s really appreciated.

  21. Salvador
    May 12, 2009

    Never mind… I rule!

  22. Stunt
    May 13, 2009

    wow , good share

  23. Diego Ripley
    June 2, 2009

    Impressive list. Will definitely use some of them in some of my work.

    Diego Ripley´s last post was… What’s in the Box?

  24. Denise
    June 7, 2009

    Thanks for this, great fonts!

  25. Sam
    June 9, 2009

    Good post. I like how you’ve illustrated each font – it makes it easy to see the differences between the fonts

  26. swapnet
    June 9, 2009

    but these fonts aren’t full sets. i was looking for italics, bold italics as well.
    doesn’t fulfil my purpose. nice collection though.

  27. Accounting Homework
    June 22, 2009

    Hi,
    Wow!!! Your article is excellent and I will add you as a topic.

  28. Adi Ulici
    July 14, 2009

    Really really good list.
    Garogier is my favorite from this list.
    Thanks for sharing!
    .-= Adi Ulici´s last blog ..C’est fini la comedie! =-.

  29. Anton Agestam
    September 1, 2009

    I like Garogier a lot! I will probably use som of these in my upcoming projects! Thanx

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