A serif is a small stroke that spans letters, numbers, and other font family characters. This is the traditional typeface used to appear in many print media. On the contrary, sans-serif is gaining popularity on the web for regular website cloning.
Serif typefaces tend to be considered classical and traditional, while sans-serif typefaces are considered more modern and contemporary. The small details of serifs, especially the more refined and high-contrast designs, do not always show up well on the screen, especially in small sizes on low-resolution displays.
Today, we’ve prepared 20 awesome best serif fonts to use for your website. You will see if serif fonts match your company’s style and learn how to pair them with other typefaces.
Best Serif Fonts for Your Design Projects
1. Glamour Absolute
Glamour Absolute is a very versatile font, covering a wide range of project types, from bold magazine imagery to wedding invitations, to branding, poster design and so much more.
2. Bastia
Bastia is a classy, bold upper and lowercase typeface that looks incredible in both large and small settings. Best used as a display for headings and logos, Bastia’s clean lines and smooth curves give any project an extra touch of class.
3. Valky Classic
Valky is a Fancy Modern vintage serif typeface with beautiful ligatures, tons of special alternative glyphs, ornament and multilingual support. It’s a very versatile font that works great in large and small sizes. Perfect for editorial projects, Logo design, Clothing Branding, product packaging, magazine headers, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image.
4. Hello Paris
Hello Paris with Modern Elegant Style this is perfect for branding, logos, invitation, masterheads and more.
5. 5th Avenue
5th Avenue is a brand new Fancy Typefaces with tons of alternative characters, ornaments, multilingual support and unique ligatures.
6. Margin
Margin is a stylish font that is both retro and bold font. It’s thick curves give a 70s groovy vibe with the serifs bringing it slightly back to traditional.
7. Quincy
Quincy’s warm letterforms and medium contrast give any text a smooth, flowing motion. Small variations and human touches add charm, with Quincy’s boldest weights especially strong as a large and medium display type.
8. Nicky Mikela
Nicky Mikela is a Bold Minimalist Elegant Modern vintage font with beautiful ligatures, tons of special alternative glyphs, ornament and multilingual support. It’s a very versatile font that works great in large and small sizes. Perfect for branding projects, Logo design, Clothing Branding, product packaging, magazine headers, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image.
9. Analogue
Analogue is a stylish modern font that is a mix of serif and sans serif. It’s soft curves mixed with high contrast glyphs lend itself to both feminine and masculine qualities. With a contrasting light italic, Analogue works great in layout design for quotes or body copy.
10. Sophillia
Sophillia is a super unique ligature font that you won’t forget! It’s a high contrast serif that has loads of style. A modern take on a Caslon style typeface, this font is ideal for those big bold headings or wedding invitations. It’s got hundreds of characters and ligatures plus all those European letters! Sophillia pairs perfectly with a light scripts font or minimal sans serif.
11. MADE Mirage
MADE Mirage is a modern elegant serif font family. MADE Mirage will perfect for many projects: fashion, magazines, logo, branding, photography, invitations, wedding invitation, quotes, blog header, poster, advertisements, postcard, book, websites, etc.
12. Muse
Muse is a chic & elegant display modern serif with beautiful contrast. Specially designed for fashion-themed projects, perfectly suitable for creating elegant, chic, lifestyle design such as logos, title, and magazine, and more.
13. SAGE
Sage is a modern serif typeface with lots of style. A high contrast version of a famous Didot look that has been synonymous with fashion for decades. This font has over 100 glyphs with multilingual letters included. This font is both modern and nostalgic and works great for logos, mastheads and pull quotes. It pairs beautifully with a minimal sans serif or light script font.
14. KINFOLK
Kinfolk is a classic style serif typeface that has been modernised with its unique curves and cut-ins making it one of the most memorable caps fonts on the market. This versatile font can be used for wordmark logos, mastheads, pull quotes & monograms showing both feminine and masculine qualities.
15. Sundays
Sundays is a modern serif font that mixes the modern and classic. Inspired by fonts like Baskerville, I have thinned out the classic serif font adding subtle curves and minimal serifs. Great for mastheads, magazines, logos and headers.
16. Le Major
Le Major is my new elegant serif font that will bring in your projects a touch of luxury and style. It’s perfect match for logotypes, branding, wedding monograms and invitations, blog headlines and much more. Flip through all the previews and get inspired like I was while creating this font.
17. Karin
Karin is a Minimalist Modern Elegant vintage font with beautiful ligatures, tons of special alternative glyphs, ornament and multilingual support. It’s a very versatile font that works great in large and small sizes. Elegant Karin is perfect for branding projects, Logo design, Clothing Branding, product packaging, magazine headers, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image.
18. Kinder
Kinder is a serif font featuring both upper and lowercase characters! Featuring unique beautiful curves and a modern feel (look at that K!) Inspired by old records and vintage typography, with an 1871 spin. It has a beautiful range of stylistic alternates with unique characters making it a versatile powerhouse for logos, headlines, posters, shirts, you name it!
19. The California
The California is a hand-drawn font duo with a modern look.
20. Glitten
Glitten is an elegant and classy serif typeface – This font is both modern and nostalgic and works great for logos, magazine, social media. Already matched up and ready to be used together for your next design! For those of you who are needing a touch of elegant, stylish, classy, chic and modernity for your designs, this font was created for you!
Sources: Creative Market
