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This list of samples of serif typefaces details standard serif fonts used in printing, classical typesetting and printing. Serif typefaces are generally regarded as easier to read than sans-serif fonts because they provide more detail. [1]
| 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 |  |  |  |
| Matrix (typeface) Designer: Zuzana Licko |  |  |  |
| Memphis Designer: Rudolf Wolf Class: Slab serif |  |  |  |
| 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 |  |  |  |
| Stempel Schneidler Designer: F.H. Ernst Schneidler Class: Old style |  |  |  |
| 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 |  | ||
| Walbaum Designer: Justus Erich Walbaum Class: Didone |  |  |  |
| Windsor Designer: Eleisha Pechey Class: Old style |  |  |  |
| Zilla Slab Class: Slab serif |  |  |  |
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