Open source serif fonts for body text

Wednesday, 17 December, 2014

In need of serif fonts for some proper typography? Look no further, I have compiled the best fonts from Google Fonts for you.

Open source serif fonts for body text

Alegreya

by Juan Pablo del Peral

Styles
Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic
Use
Desktop, Web
Variants

Small caps

Basic ligatures (fi, fl)

Extendend ligatures (fj, ffi, ffl)

Old-style figures (lowercase figures)


Andada

by Huerta Tipográfica

Styles
Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic
Use
Desktop, Web
Variants

Small caps

Basic ligatures (fi, fl, fj)

Extendend ligatures

Old-style figures (lowercase figures)


eb Garamond

by Georg Duffner

Styles
Regular
Use
Desktop, Web
Variants

Small caps

Basic ligatures (fi, fl in several alternates)

Extendend ligatures (fi, fl, fj, ft, ffi, ffl, ffj, ffb, ffh, fft in several alternates)

Old-style figures (lowercase figures)


Libre Baskerville

by Impallari Type

Styles
Regular, Italic, Bold
Use
Desktop, Web
Variants

Small caps

Basic ligatures (fi, fl)

Extendend ligatures (fb, fh, ffb, ffh, fj, ffj, fk, ffk, ft, fft, ct, sp, ff, ffi, ffl, st)

Old-style figures (lowercase figures)


Goudy Bookletter 1911

by Barry Schwartz

Styles
Regular
Use
Desktop, Web
Variants

Small caps

Basic ligatures (fi, fl)

Extendend ligatures (ffi, ffl)

Old-style figures (lowercase figures)


Neuton

by Brian Zick

Styles
Extra Light, Light, Regular, Italic, Bold, Extra Bold
Use
Desktop, Web
Variants

Small caps

Basic ligatures

Extendend ligatures

Old-style figures (lowercase figures)


Lora

by Cyreal

Styles
Regular, Italic, Bold
Use
Desktop, Web
Variants

Small caps

Basic ligatures

Extendend ligatures

Old-style figures (lowercase figures)


Mate

by Eduardo Tunni

Styles
Regular, Italic
Use
Desktop, Web
Variants

Small caps

Basic ligatures (fi, fl, ff) The thing is that they don’t look like ligatures.

Extendend ligatures (ffi, ffl)

Old-style figures (lowercase figures)


Merriweather

by Sorkin Type Co

Styles
Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Heavy, Heavy Italic
Use
Desktop, Web
Variants

Small caps

Basic ligatures (fi, fl, ff) The thing is that they don’t look like ligatures.

Extendend ligatures (ffi, ffl)

Old-style figures (lowercase figures)

Small caps is coming in later versions


Poly

by José Nicolás Silva Schwarzenberg

Styles
Regular, Italic
Use
Desktop, Web
Variants

Small caps - upon request from José.

Basic ligatures (fb, fk, fh, ft, fi, fl, ff)

Extendend ligatures (ffb, ffk, ffh, fft, ffi, ffl)

Old-style figures (lowercase figures)


Charter

by Matthew Carter

Styles
Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic
Use
Desktop, Web
Variants

Small caps

Basic ligatures (fi, fl)

Extendend ligatures (fb, fh, ffb, ffh, fj, ffj, fk, ffk, ft, fft, ct, sp, ff, ffi, ffl, st)

Old-style figures (lowercase figures)