Bree Serif

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Bree Serif Regular

About Bree Serif

Bree Serif is a slab serif built as an upright italic: the letters stand straight, but several lowercase shapes come from handwriting. In the specimen the a is single-storey, the e has a curved, cursive crossbar, and y and z end in swung strokes, while the stems rest on thick, blunt serifs. Stroke contrast is low and the weight is fairly dark, so the face holds up as a heading. It is the serif counterpart of TypeTogether's Bree, a family by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione that the official notes date to 2008. Bree Serif comes in one Regular style and is not a variable font. It has 396 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1, with “Bree” and “Bree Serif” as Reserved Font Names.

Where Bree Serif works

Blog and magazine headlines

The dark Regular and blunt slab serifs give a title weight without needing a bold cut.

Logos and shop names

Cursive touches such as the single-storey a and the curved e make a short name look informal yet solid.

Subheads over sans serif text

A slab serif with handwritten details contrasts clearly with a plain sans used for paragraphs.

Menus and packaging

Section titles and product names keep their shape at label sizes thanks to the low stroke contrast.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Bree Serif

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Bree Serif on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Bree Serif";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BreeSerif-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Bree Serif", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Bree Serif with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bree+Serif&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style

Bree Serif has Regular only. There is no bold and no separate italic; the upright design already carries italic forms.

Listed as a serif at the source

The official catalogue classes Bree Serif as serif; the thick, unbracketed serifs in the specimen are slabs.

Two Reserved Font Names

The license reserves both “Bree” and “Bree Serif”, so a modified version needs a different name.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All slab serif fonts