Text and display serifs with a checked open licence and a source to download from.
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A soft old-style display and text face with softness and wonk axes, by Undercase Type.
Undercase Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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Commissioned for Google Play Books, a typographic text face with optical sizes for long-form reading.
TypeTogether
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A sharp news face from Production Type, with optical sizes for body, deck and headline.
Production Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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Adobe's open text serif, designed by Frank Grießhammer, with an optical-size axis from caption to display.
Adobe
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A scientific text face based on Times, maintained for publishing, with a large set of symbols in the wider STIX project.
STI Pub
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A calligraphic text face from Huerta Tipográfica, with a sans companion and strong Latin and Cyrillic.
Huerta Tipográfica
Licence: OFL-1.1
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An organic text serif originally for typographic education in Argentina, later extended as Andada Pro.
Huerta Tipográfica
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A variable Bodoni with optical size, drawn by Owen Earl, from text to high-contrast display.
Indestructible Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A classicist's serif with deep coverage of ancient and medieval characters, by David J. Perry.
David J. Perry
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A sturdy bitext serif from SIL, related to Charter, built for linguistic and literacy work.
SIL International
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A display Garamond with several optical grades (Infant, Garamond, Unicase and more) in one project.
Christian Thalmann
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A contemporary old-style by Jacques Le Bailly, refined from Crimson Text, with a large weight range.
Jacques Le Bailly
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A careful open Garamond, started by Georg Duffner and expanded by Octavio Pardo, for long text.
Georg Duffner, Octavio Pardo
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A soft old-style based on Fairfield, released by the League for body text in print and on screen.
The League of Moveable Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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SIL's book-weight Gentium, a readable serif with deep Latin, Greek and Cyrillic coverage.
SIL International
Licence: OFL-1.1
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The serif cut of IBM Plex, a contemporary old-style with the same tone as the sans and mono.
IBM
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A sharp display serif from Instrument, designed to sit next to Instrument Sans, with a striking italic.
Instrument
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A fork of Linux Libertine that keeps the typographic character and adds sturdier metrics and maths.
Philipp H. Poll, Khaled Hosny, Caleb Maclennan
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A Baskerville cut for body sizes on screen, from Impallari Type, with regular, italic and bold.
Impallari Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A contemporary old-style with a calligraphic italic, drawn by Cyreal with strong Cyrillic coverage.
Cyreal
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A sturdy text serif designed for screens, slightly condensed, with a matching sans.
Sorkin Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The serif cut of Noto's Latin-Greek-Cyrillic core, designed to sit next to Noto Sans.
Google
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A news and editorial serif with an optical-size axis, designed by Juan Pablo del Peral at Huerta.
Huerta Tipográfica
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A high-contrast transitional display serif, in the lineage of the later Baskervilles and Scotts.
Claus Eggers Sørensen
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A compact roman by Barry Schwartz, useful when a page needs a slightly narrow, bookish serif.
The League of Moveable Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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The serif companion to PT Sans, a transitional text face released for public use by ParaType.
ParaType
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A serif commissioned by Google for long articles, with a real italic and a set of text weights.
Production Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A Palatino-inspired open text serif from the Polish TeX group GUST, with a matching maths set.
GUST e-foundry
Licence: GUST Font License
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A compact old-style with a slightly dark colour, drawn by NoirBlancRouge for editorial use.
NoirBlancRouge
Licence: OFL-1.1
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