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Crimson Pro

A Garalde-style text serif by Jacques Le Bailly, variable across eight weights with italics.

Serif 16 styles · variable by Jacques Le Bailly OFL

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Crimson Pro is a serif typeface family developed by Jacques Le Bailly for book-length reading, in the old-style Garalde tradition. Crimson Pro is a variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 900, eight named weights and italics, 16 styles in total. Crimson Pro is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits textbooks and editorial sites.

Crimson Pro font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Jacques Le Bailly
Classification
Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
16 8 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 200–900
Glyphs
829
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.003
Used for
Body textEditorial

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Crimson Pro; the download contains the complete files.

Crimson Pro font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Crimson Pro specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • ExtraLight 200Crimson Pro ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
  • Light 300Crimson Pro Light Light Italic
  • Regular 400Crimson Pro Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Crimson Pro Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Crimson Pro SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Crimson Pro Bold Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold 800Crimson Pro ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
  • Black 900Crimson Pro Black Black Italic

Crimson Pro is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Crimson Pro

Crimson Pro is a serif family made for long texts. The official notes place it in the Garalde, or old-style, tradition and name college textbooks and editorial websites as intended uses. Its history has three steps: Sebastian Kosch began the first Crimson in 2009 and later redrew it as Crimson Prime; Jacques Le Bailly was then asked by Google to assess the two and merge them into a new design, released in January 2019. In the specimen the letters are open and fairly wide, with moderate contrast, sturdy bracketed serifs and lining numerals. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 900; ExtraLight through Black gives eight named weights, each with an italic, 16 styles in two files. There are 829 glyphs with Latin, extended Latin and Vietnamese subsets. Crimson Pro is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Crimson Pro works

Textbooks and course material
College textbooks are a use the official notes name, and eight weights separate body text, definitions and headings.
Long-form articles
Open, fairly wide letters with moderate contrast are drawn for sustained reading on editorial sites.
Book interiors
Regular with its italic sets the text; Medium and SemiBold handle running heads and chapter openers.
Headlines in the same family
ExtraBold 800 and Black 900 supply titles without bringing in a second serif.
Vietnamese text
The Vietnamese subset is present in every weight and in the italics.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 829 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
  • Vietnamese

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

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2018 The Crimson Pro Project Authors (https://github.com/Fonthausen/CrimsonPro)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Crimson Pro

Cairo Sans Serif

Crimson Pro is serif and Cairo is sans serif (8 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Martian Mono Monospace

Martian Mono is a monospace family (8 weights) for code and figures next to Crimson Pro as the text face.

Encode Sans Expanded Sans Serif

Crimson Pro is serif and Encode Sans Expanded is sans serif (9 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

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 Crimson Pro 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Crimson Pro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CrimsonPro-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Crimson Pro";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CrimsonPro-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Crimson Pro", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Crimson Pro with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Two variable files
Roman and italic are separate files, each covering the 200 to 900 weight range.
No Cyrillic or Greek
Subsets are Latin, extended Latin and Vietnamese.
Starts at ExtraLight
The lightest named weight is ExtraLight 200; there is no Thin 100.

FAQs

Is Crimson Pro free for commercial use?

Yes. Crimson Pro is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Crimson Pro?

Crimson Pro was developed by Jacques Le Bailly, who works in Den Haag, building on earlier Crimson designs by Sebastian Kosch.

How many weights does Crimson Pro have?

Crimson Pro has eight named weights, ExtraLight 200 to Black 900, each with an italic, for 16 styles.

Is Crimson Pro a variable font?

Yes. Crimson Pro is a variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 900.

Which languages does Crimson Pro support?

Crimson Pro includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese.

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