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Times New Roman
popular serif typeface by Stanley Morison, Victor Lardent & Juan Parra(Victor's Asesor)
Antiqua
thumb|A facsimile of Nicolas Jenson|Nicolas Jenson's roman type used in [[Venice c. 1470. The abstracted long "s" (resembling a barless "f") fell out of use in the 19th century.]] thumb|The word "Antiqua" written in the Antiqua style.
Palatino
Palatino is an old-style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf, initially released in 1949 by the Stempel foundry and later by other companies, most notably the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Palatino is optimised for legibility with open counters, balanced proportions, moderate stroke contrast and flared serifs.
Q1502659
Gentium (, from the Latin for "of the nations") is a Unicode serif typeface family designed by Victor Gaultney. Gentium fonts are free and open source software, and are released under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), which permits modification and redistribution. Gentium has nearly universal support for modern languages using the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts, as well as the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and other phonetic notation, excepting mostly paleographic and medievalist characters. Gentium includes over 4,600 glyphs and advanced typographic features through OpenType and fo
Caslon
Caslon is the name given to serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I in London, or inspired by his work.
Hoefler Text
1991 typeface by Jonathan Hoefler
Junicode
Junicode ("Junius-Unicode") is a free and open-source (SIL Open Font License) old-style serif typeface developed by Peter S. Baker of the University of Virginia. T‌he design is based on a 17th-century typeface used in Oxford, England.
Trajan
typeface family
Sabon
Sabon is an old-style serif typeface designed by the German-born typographer and designer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974) in the period 1964–1967. It was released jointly by the Linotype, Monotype, and Stempel type foundries in 1967. The design of the roman is based on types by Claude Garamond (), particularly a specimen printed by the Frankfurt printer Konrad Berner. Berner had married the widow of a fellow printer Jacques Sabon, the source of the face's name, who had bought some of Garamond's type after his death. The italics are based on types designed by a contemporary of Garamond's, Robert Gra
Minion
digital typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1990 for Adobe Systems
Centaur
typeface
Goudy Old Style
typeface
Janson
Janson is the name given to a set of old-style serif typefaces from the Dutch Baroque period, and modern revivals from the twentieth century. Janson is a crisp, relatively high-contrast serif design, most popular for body text.
Golden Type
typeface
Scala
typeface
Plantin
typeface
Granjon
Granjon is an old-style serif typeface designed by George W. Jones around 1924 for the British branch of the Linotype company, and based on the Garamond typeface that was used in a book printed by the Parisian Jean Poupy in 1592. The roman design was from Claude Garamond and the italic version was from Robert Granjon. Because several other Garamonds were on the market in the 1920s, Jones decided to name his type Granjon. Jones, a master printer based in London, had been engaged by Linotype to improve the quality of their typeface range through the development of revivals of notable type design
Arno
typeface
Aldus
typeface
Cheltenham
font, typeface
Bookman
typeface
Adobe Jenson
typeface
Galliard
serif typeface
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