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]

List of samples

Samples of serif typefaces
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	N/a	N/a
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	N/a	N/a
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		N/a
Caledonia Designer: William Addison Dwiggins Class: Transitional		N/a
Calisto Designer: Ron Carpenter Class: Old style
Cambria Designer: Jelle Bosma Class: Transitional
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	N/a	N/a
Clarendon Designer: Robert Besley Class: Slab serif
Cochin Designer: Georges Peignot, Matthew Carter Class: Transitional	N/a	N/a
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
Della Robbia Designer: Thomas Maitland Cleland Class: Old Style, Wedge Serif
Didot Class: Modern		N/a
Droid Serif Designer: Steve Matteson Class: Other
Emerson Designer: Joseph Blumenthal Class: Old style	N/a
FF Scala Designer: Martin Majoor Class: Old style		N/a
Footlight Designer: Ong Chong Wah	N/a	N/a
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 William Jones Class: Old style
Hoefler Text Designer: Jonathan Hoefler Class: Old style
Iowan Old Style Designer: John Downer Class: Old style		N/a
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		N/a
Liberation Serif Designer: Steve Matteson Class: Other			N/a
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	N/a
MS Serif Designer: Microsoft		N/a
New York Designer: Susan Kare, Charles Bigelow, and Kris Holmes Class: Transitional	N/a	N/a
Nilland Designer: Manfred Klein Class: Slab serif	N/a	N/a
Palatino Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Old style
Perpetua Designer: Eric Gill Class: Transitional
Plantin Designer: Christophe Plantin Class: Old style	N/a	N/a
IBM Plex Serif Designer: Mike Abbink Class: Transitional, Scotch	N/a	N/a
Rawlinson Roadway Designer: James Montalbano Class: Old style	N/a		N/a
Requiem Designer: Jonathan Hoefler Class: Old style	N/a	N/a
Roboto Slab Designer: Christian Robertson Class: Slab serif	N/a	N/a
Rockwell Class: Slab serif
Rotis Designer: Otl Aicher Class: Other	N/a
Sabon Designer: Jan Tschichold Class: Old style
Serifa Designer: Adrian Frutiger Class: Slab serif	N/a	N/a
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	N/a	N/a
Times New Roman Designer: Stanley Morison Class: Transitional
Trajan Designer: Carol Twombly Class: Old Style
Trinité Designer: Bram de Does Class: Humanist serif		N/a
Trump Mediaeval Designer: Georg Trump Class: Old Style	N/a	N/a
Utopia Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Didone	N/a	N/a
Walbaum Designer: Justus Erich Walbaum Class: Didone
Windsor Designer: Eleisha Pechey Class: Old style
Zilla Slab Class: Slab serif