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15 Essential Serif Fonts for Professional Designers

by | Jul 27, 2012 | Articles, Tutorials, Typography | 1 comment

15 Essential Serif Fonts for Professional Designers

This is a list of 16 quality serif fonts for professional designers that you will find in most professional graphic design work. These are all found in body copy of books and magazines. They are all beautiful and elegant for their own reasons. They all come in different weights and italics, which make them versatile and useful. Serif fonts are made to make it easier to read long bodies of text at smaller sizes. Each typeface has its own serif, x-height, stem, and variations of the thickness and proportions of these elements. Designers usually use serif typefaces for newspapers, magazines, and most print publications. Serif fonts are mainly used in serious works that are classical and traditional in nature, such as formal events, the news, important documents, and serious advertisements. For example, you might see a designer use a serif typeface for a cancer prevention advertisement. You can find most of these typefaces via online font shops such as FontShop or LinoType, where they will offer whole families at a discount, or they will sell smaller bundles or even typefaces broken down individually, so that you can find exactly the typeface that you are looking for.

1. Adobe Caslon Pro

Adobe Calson Pro serif fonts for professional designers

2. Mrs. Eaves

Mrs. Eaves serif fonts for professional designers

3. Arno Pro

Arno Pro serif fonts for professional designers

4. Baskerville

Baskervile serif fonts for professional designers

5. Bembo

Bembo serif fonts for professional designers

 

6. Bodoni

Bodoni serif fonts for professional designers

7. Bookman Old Style

Bookman serif fonts for professional designers

8.ChunkFive

ChunkFive Essential Fonts for professional designers

9. Palatino

Palatino serif fonts for professional designers

10. Rockwell

Rockwell serif fonts for professional designers

11. Walbaum

Walbaum serif fonts for professional designers

12. Meta Serif

Meta Serif serif fonts for professional designers

13. Sabon


sabon serif fonts for professional designers

14. Clarendon

Clarendon serif fonts for professional designers

15. Jenson serif fonts for professional designersAdobe Jenson

 

Conclusion

Choosing just the right typeface to express your client’s message can be tough, but with the typefaces listed above in your arsenal, you will be able to deliver beautiful, professional design work that is both elegant and easy to read. Knowing what is available will help you to choose just the right typeface at the right thickness. Choosing a good serif typeface with its professional variations (not faux bold and italic) will give your design work a consistent look, while still integrating variation within your designs. The results will be a well balanced, design that is bold easy-to-read and visually compelling. What is your favorite serif typeface? Which one do you think is the most elegant typeface?

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