DM Serif Display

Try DM Serif Display

Weights and styles

• Regular 400DM Serif Display Regular Italic

About DM Serif Display

DM Serif Display is a transitional serif in which thick vertical strokes meet very thin hairlines and fine serifs. In the specimen the a, c, f, r and y end in ball terminals and the capital Q carries a long curved tail. The official notes say the design was shaped for poster-sized settings, with DM Serif Text as its companion for smaller sizes. The family has a single weight, Regular 400, in two styles: upright and italic. Each file holds 355 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. Colophon Foundry designed it starting from the Latin part of Adobe's Source Serif Pro by Frank Grießhammer, and the copyright notice still records Adobe's Reserved Font Name 'Source'. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and was added to Google Fonts in 2019.

Where DM Serif Display works

Poster headlines

The hairlines were drawn for very large sizes, where the contrast between thick and thin strokes is fully visible.

Magazine mastheads and section titles

Ball terminals and the long-tailed Q give short titles a distinct editorial look.

Pull quotes

The italic style lets a quotation stand apart from an upright headline without leaving the family.

Hero text on websites

One or two words set large use the fine serifs as intended; smaller subheadings can pass to DM Serif Text.

Book and album covers

A title in capitals shows the strong vertical stress and thin serifs at cover size.

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 DM Serif Display

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

body {
  font-family: "DM Serif Display", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves DM Serif Display 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=DM+Serif+Display:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No bold

DM Serif Display has only Regular 400, upright and italic. A bold setting would be faked by the software.

Hairlines thin out at small sizes

The thin strokes are tuned for large settings; the official notes point to DM Serif Text for smaller point sizes.

Reserved Font Name in the notice

The copyright notice keeps Adobe's Reserved Font Name 'Source', which matters to anyone releasing a modified version.

FAQs

Collections with DM Serif Display

• Bold fonts for posters and big headlines

  Heavy and condensed open-license display fonts that hold a sheet from across the room: gothics, slabs, fat faces and stencils.

• Fonts that support Turkish

  Open-license families that contain every letter of the Turkish alphabet, including dotted and dotless i, across text, display and script styles.

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