DM Serif Text

Try DM Serif Text

Weights and styles

• Regular 400DM Serif Text Regular Italic

About DM Serif Text

DM Serif Text is a serif typeface made as the more robust partner of DM Serif Display. Its thin strokes are heavier than those of the Display version, while the serifs stay fine; the specimen shows ball terminals on a, c, f and r and a capital Q with a sweeping tail. According to the official notes it is intended for smaller subheadings and text sizes, where the Display hairlines would become too faint. The family has a single weight, Regular 400, in upright and italic, two styles in all, and each file contains 355 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. Colophon Foundry designed it from the Latin part of Adobe's Source Serif Pro by Frank Grießhammer. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and joined Google Fonts in 2019.

Where DM Serif Text works

Subheadings under a display title

It was drawn to follow DM Serif Display at smaller sizes, so the two share shapes while the Text cut keeps its thin strokes visible.

Standfirsts and intro paragraphs

Lower contrast holds up in a few lines of text set between a headline and the body copy.

Pull quotes and captions

The italic gives quotations and picture captions a second voice.

Menus and printed cards

Short entries set in a dark Regular with fine serifs read clearly at modest sizes.

Article titles on blogs

The strokes are dark enough for medium-sized headings on screen, where a hairline display face would break up.

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

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

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

Things to know

One weight, two styles

Only Regular 400 exists, upright and italic. There is no bold for emphasis inside running text.

Darker than a book face

The Regular is visibly heavy in the specimen, so long pages set in it look dense.

Latin and Latin Extended only

The 355 glyphs do not include Cyrillic, Greek or Vietnamese.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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