List of serif typefaces

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]

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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			[[File: \|200px]]
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		[[File: A specimen of the typeface Friz Quadrata \|200px]]
ITC Galliard Designer: Matthew Carter Class: Old style		[[File: A specimen of the typeface ITC Galliard \|200px]]
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
ITC Lubalin Graph Designer: Herb Lubalin Class: Slab serif
Matrix (typeface) Designer: Zuzana Licko	[[File: Matrix-II \|195px]]	[[File: A specimen of the typeface Matrix \|200px]]
Memphis Designer: Rudolf Wolf Class: Slab serif		[[File: A specimen of the typeface Memphis \|200px]]
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 Roman Designer: Stanley Morison Class: Transitional
Trajan Designer: Carol Twombly Class: Old Style	[[File: TrajanPro font \|195px]]	[[File: Abecedarium latinum clasicum \|200px]]
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		[[File: Walbaum font specimen \|200px]]
Windsor Designer: Eleisha Pechey Class: Old style
Zilla Slab Class: Slab serif

List of serif typefaces

List of samples

Additional serif typefaces

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