A serif is a small stroke that spans letters, numbers, and other font family characters. This is the traditional typeface used to appear on 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 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.
Top 20 Best Serif Fonts Part II
21. Argent
Argent is dashing and expressive, with pronounced x‑height and evocative, flowing letterforms. Featuring true italics, wide language support, a host of OpenType features, and lots of character, Argent a tribute to the past and a step into the future.
22. Classico
Classico is a stylish font that is both classic and minimal. A light, high contrast font that is perfect for feminine logo marks, fashion mastheads & editorial design.
23. Dahlia
Dahlia is a classic serif typeface with a modern twist. The sharp serifs and diamond dots add a chic Persian style while still staying legible. This versatile font works great for mastheads, pull quotes and wordmark logos.
24. Manhattan
This minimalistic and classy all-caps serif typeface features sleek lines and thin serifs. Perfect for gorgeous logos & titles, Manhattan will pair beautifully with many fonts and work well with whatever project you’re working on.
25. SAONARA
The SAONARA will perfect for many projects: fashion, magazines, logo, branding, photography, wedding invitations, quotes, blog header, poster, advertisements, etc.
26. Culture
Culture is an edgy modern serif font. It’s long serifs and off-axis curves make it a unique high contrast typeface that is all style. It comes in regular and bold with a lower and uppercase, numbers, punctuation plus multilingual letters. A must-have for any modern graphic designer!
27. Zephyr
Zephyr is a modern serif with loads of style. A unique modern font that is a mix of old and new. It’s soft curves mixed with high contrast glyphs lend itself to both feminine and masculine qualities.
28. Hunter
Hunter is an elegant, unique font that uses ligatures to smoothly link letters. Perfect for adding a unique twist to word-mark logos, monograms or pull quotes. Hunter has 20 ligatures as well as numbers and punctuation making it super versatile.
29. Wensley
Wensley is a modern high-class serif font typeface. It includes all basic glyphs with Non-English characters. This font will pair beautifully with the script, signature or handwriting style. Wensley is perfect for headlines, titles, magazines headings, logo’s, presentations, posters, name card, web layouts, invitations, books, branding, and nearly any creative design.
30. Enigma
Enigma is a modern elegant serif font. in this font you will find many ligatures and alternates that give great potential for creating logos, branding, arranging wedding invitations, business cards, packaging and much more.
31. NOMARK
Nomark is a elegant and classy serif typeface – This font is both modern and nostalgic and works great for logos, 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!
32. London
London’s thick to thin contrast and sleek lines make it perfect for logos, quotes, invitations, weddings, business cards, powerpoint presentations, and more!
33. Aloha Paradise
Aloha Paradise is a casual, island inspired, hand lettered serif font family perfect for adding a perfectly imperfect handmade touch to your projects! Great for styling quotes, creating beautiful logos, signage, social media, blog posts, packaging, and more.
34. Balerno Serif
Balerno Serif is a modern multilingual elegant Didone serif enhanced by ligatures, alternates and swashes.
35. Walker
Walker is a hand-lettered serif font family including Thin, Regular, and Bold variations. It’s a serif that isn’t too stiff with soft, feminine, hand-drawn touches. Use this font for your next logo, or spaced out nicely on your next Instagram inspirational quote.
36. Francie Font Duo
Francie Font Duo is a modern calligraphy font with perfect serif pair. These are ideal for fashion, blog website, instagram, branding, invitations, business cards, weddings and many more.
37. MADE Canvas
MADE Canvas is a family of high-contrast serif fonts. Canvas is a modern style “Didoni”. The typefamily includes 3 weights – Light, Regular and Black. The hairlines in all of the fonts are very thin.
38. Artemis
Artemis is a contemporary and elegant display semi-serif typeface. Uppercase and lowercase characters use the same cap height, meaning all characters are the same height. This allows for unique combinations between upper and lowercase characters to create great variety in your designs.
39. Abigail
Abigail is a serif typeface that contains upper and lowercase characters, number 0-9 and a range of punctuation and symbols. If you have any trouble finding certain characters you can access them via the glyphs panel.
40. Thrift Serif
Introducing Thrift, a beautifully curvaceous serif font with smooth curves and fine lines and plenty of OpenType features. Thrift is perfect for your next editorial, advertising, branding, book, or invitation project.
41. Brooké
Brooké is modern Serif and minimalist character! Brooké perfect use for logos, print, collage, body text, and more! It looks minimalist a really cool modern-meets-vintage look to any piece.
42. Ranille
Ranille a modern classy bold serif font. An elegant font with a bunch of alternates, and ligatures. Ranille is a display font inspired by retro curves style from the 50-60s era and brings it into modern design with bold weight.
43. Georgia Ballpark
Georgia Ballpark is perfect combination between modern serif with signature script font. Contain two fonts, the delicate modern serif and a free hand writing script.
44. Lara
Lara is a classic and slightly curved serif typeface. Its striking look makes it perfect for headers. This font family includes all Latin characters (including accents), numbers, special characters, and punctuation.
45. Praline
Praline is a font family that contains two fonts – charged with OpenType features vintage soft serif and a sans serif with corresponding forms and softness.
46. MARION & The Essentials
Marion & The essentials are the matching fonts between serif which are fonts elegant and handsome with beautiful handwriting fonts that are pretty, firm and a little texture in every letter.
47. Loverica
Loverica is a classic and modern serif with a bunch of alternates up to 7 style for each characters that will make your presentation or logo even more stunning and stand out!
48. Legion
Legion is a contemporary, sophisticated, and unique serif font that comes full of ligatures and alternate characters perfect for creating variety in your designs.
Final Thoughts
We hope you enjoyed this list of best serif fonts, and we hope you found a new font or two. Check out our other font lists:
Sources: Creative Market
