Serif fonts are luxurious and traditional. You need serif fonts for projects with a lot of small text. Novels, journals, educational articles, and so much more. It can be hard to find a super good Serif font on the internet for a cheap price.
Font costs can range anywhere from $50 to $200 dollars, but some super nice companies make their fonts free. Here are the best five Serif fonts on the internet for free right now.
5. Antic Didone- Available on fontsquirrel.com
“Antic Slab was designed for use in the headlines of newspapers and magazines. The Antic Type System is a super family that is still evolving, and this first release of the Slab family. It complements the Sans and Didone versions, giving the designer freedom to create rhythmic and dynamic typography using all three families in the type system.
Each family in the type system has a large x-height that makes it very readable, especially on the web. Each also has slight stress derived from handwriting. Antic Slab’s discreet slab serifs give it a strong presence in layouts. With modern proportions and condensed letter forms, it is great for economical typesetting, on paper and on screen.”
I love Antic Didone’s thin letter forms. This font looks so luxurious and high brow. I could see this font being used in a Parisian Bakery.
4. Andada- Available on fontsquirrel.com
“Andada is a text font with an organic-slab serif, hybrid style, a solid design of medium stroke contrast. This font has received an award at the Ibero-America Design Biennial. The Biennial has been shown in Spain, Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Uruguay, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela.”
I love the ways that the A’s and the D’s little serifs flip out. It is a square serif but has so much character and movement in a small serif.
3. Bree Serif- Available on googlefonts.com
This friendly upright italic is the serif cousin of TypeTogether's award winning family Bree. Designed by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, Bree was originally released in 2008 and became an immediate success because of its originality, charming appearance and versatility.
This is a very thick and bold Serif font, which is pretty out of the norm for a Serif font. This font has a very playful and fun vibe.
2. Inria Serif- Available on googlefonts.com
"Inria Sans and Inria Serif are the two members of a type family designed for the communication of Inria, a national institute dedicated to numeric research. The Institute needed a font showing its values at the crossroad of humanity, technology, excellence and creativity. Black[Foundry] created a humanist typeface with a unapologetically contemporary design as the Sans-Serif part and a more rational drawing for the Serif. Both members come in 3 weights with matching Italics."
The spacing is so perfect on this font. The serifs are nice and very symmetrical. The numbers, letters and special characters all work really well with this font face, which sometimes they really don’t for free fonts.
1. Cabrito Didone- Available on fontsquirrel.com
“A graceful kid if ever you’ve seen one, Cabrito Didone joins the Cabrito family of fonts—a family designed to provide young infants with a clear recognition of letter forms. The original letters were released as part of the children’s book about fonts, The Clothes Letters Wear.
Now, this latest addition brings a new Didone flavor to the table. But don’t judge the book by its cover. While Didones can be stodgy in the way they deliver a sense of luxury, this stubborn goat of a Didone bucks the stodgy stereotypes with its high-contrast, carefree, flowing fun, taking a more calligraphic direction than most. Cabrito Didone joins structure and handwriting to create a flowing balance of both characteristics. It’s a unique combination of functional and friendly. Its 46 well-designed fonts give you plenty of easy-going, highly readable options to work with as you craft your design.
The typeface has unique serifs that give the sense of ink pooling slightly at the points, drawn with a sharp nib.
Cabrito Didone supports OpenType features and is packaged with upright obliques, alternates, ligatures, old-fashioned figures, and compact caps. Preview any and all of these features in the interactive PDF manual. The family member font also includes glyphs for 72 languages; over 600 glyphs per font await. Cabrito Didone is an excellent choice for websites as well as flyers and packaging. Like Cabrito, which is currently used by a number of visible brands, Cabrito Didone is also a great option for defining your brand.”
This fonts serif is so unique. Instead of a square or slight curve on a serif it is very, very circular. The way the t and a dramatic curve is also super cute.
As we talked about before, fonts can get expensive fast, luckily there are some good free options. Let me know if you've tried any of these fonts before, and how you felt about them in the comments below.
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