This list of samples of Serif typefaces details standard fonts used in printing, classical typesetting and printing. For a list of the principal serif fonts used in mainstream graphical user interfaces, such as – for example – GNOME on Linux, see Samples of display typefaces, although in reality in modern computing most fonts are designed to be multi-purpose.
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| Adobe Jenson Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style |
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| Aldus Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Old style |
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| Alexandria Designer: Hank Gillette Class: Slab serif Sub-class: Geometric |
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| Algerian Designer: Stephen Blake, Philip Kelly Class: Decorative |
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| American Typewriter Designer: Joel Kaden & Tony Stan Class: Old style |
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| Arno Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style |
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| Aster Designer: Francesco Simoncini Class: Modern |
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| Baskerville Designer: John Baskerville Class: Transitional |
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| Bauer Bodoni Designer: Heinrich Jost Class: Modern |
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| Bell Designer: Richard Austin Class: Modern |
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| Bembo Designer: Stanley Morison Class: Old style |
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| Benguiat Designer: Ed Benguiat Class: Decorative |
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| Bernhard Modern Designer: Lucian Bernhard Class: Old style |
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| Bodoni Designer: Giambattista Bodoni Class: Modern |
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| Bookman Designer: Alexander Phemister Class: Old style |
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| Bulmer Designer: William Martin Class: Transitional |
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| Caledonia Designer: William Addison Dwiggins Class: Transitional |
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| Calisto Designer: Ron Carpenter Class: Old style |
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| Cambria Designer: Jelle Bosma Class: Other |
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| Caslon Designer: William Caslon Class: Old style |
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| Centaur Designer: Bruce Rogers Class: Old style |
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| Century Schoolbook Designer: Morris Fuller Benton Class: Modern |
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| Chaparral Designer: Carol Twombly Class: Slab serif Sub-class: Humanist |
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| Cheltenham Designer: Bertram Goodhue & Ingalls Kimball Class: Old style |
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| Clarendon Designer: Robert Besley Class: Slab serif |
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| Computer Modern Designer: Donald Knuth Class: Modern |
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| Constantia Class: Other |
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| DejaVu Serif Class: Other |
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| Didot Class: Modern |
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| Droid Class: Other |
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| Emerson Designer: Joseph Blumenthal Class: Old style |
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| FF Scala Designer: Martin Majoor Class: Old style |
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| Friz Quadrata Designer: Ernst Friz & Victor Caruso Class: Decorative |
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| Garamond Designer: Claude Garamond & Jean Jannon Class: Old style |
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| Gentium Designer: Victor Gaultney Class: Other |
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| Georgia Designer: Matthew Carter Class: Transitional |
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| Goudy Old Style Designer: Frederic Goudy Class: Old style |
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| Granjon Designer: George W. Jones Class: Old style |
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| Hoefler Text Designer: Jonathan Hoefler Class: Old style |
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| Janson Designer: Chauncey H. Griffith Class: Old style |
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| Junicode Designer: Peter S. Baker Class: Old style |
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| Joanna Designer: Eric Gill Class: Transitional |
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| Korinna Designer: Ed Benguiat & Vic Caruso Class: Decorative |
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| Linux Libertine Class: Other |
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| Literaturnaya Designer: Anatolii Shchukin Class: Transitional |
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| Lucida Bright Designer: Charles Bigelow & Kris Holmes Class: Other |
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| Minion Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style |
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| Mrs Eaves Designer: Zuzana Licko Class: Transitional |
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| New York Designer: Susan Kare, Charles Bigelow, and Kris Holmes Class: Transitional |
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| Palatino Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Old style |
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| Perpetua Designer: Eric Gill Class: Transitional |
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| Rawlinson Roadway Designer: James Montalbano Class: Old style |
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| Requiem Designer: Jonathan Hoefler Class: Old style |
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| Rockwell Class: Slab serif |
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| Rotis Designer: Otl Aicher Class: Other |
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| Sabon Designer: Jan Tschichold Class: Old style |
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| Times New Roman Designer: Stanley Morison Class: Transitional |
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| Utopia Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Didone |
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| Windsor Designer: Eleisha Pechey Class: Old style |