# Crimson Pro font

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

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.

## Facts

- Classification: [Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/serif)
- Designed by: Jacques Le Bailly
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 16 (ExtraLight 200, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700, ExtraBold 800, Black 900; with italics)
- Variable font: Yes (wght 200–900)
- Glyphs: 829
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-09-11
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Crimson+Pro
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/crimson-pro
- Tagged for: Body text, Editorial

## 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.

## License

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

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/crimson-pro (trendhub)