Inria Serif

Try Inria Serif

Weights and styles

• Light 300Inria Serif Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Inria Serif Regular Italic
• Bold 700Inria Serif Bold Bold Italic

About Inria Serif

Inria Serif is the serif half of a two-part type family commissioned by Inria, a national research institute, for its own communications; the other half is Inria Sans. The official notes describe the sans as the humanist member and the serif as the more rational drawing, and the specimen agrees: vertical stress, clear contrast between thick stems and thin horizontals, flat thin serifs and capitals of even, fairly narrow proportions. Numerals are lining figures at capital height. The family comes in Light 300, Regular 400 and Bold 700 with matching italics, six static styles, and is not a variable font. Its 595 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, including the letters for French, German, Polish, Turkish and Romanian. The name table credits the Black Foundry team, the official page names Grégori Vincens and Jérémie Hornus, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Inria Serif works

Research reports and papers

The family was made for a research institute's documents, and its Regular with italic covers text, citations and emphasis.

Institutional identity

Inria Serif and Inria Sans were designed as one family in the same three weights, so a serif and a sans voice can share a system.

Long articles

Lining figures and steady vertical stress keep dates, references and running text on an even line.

Headings in Light

Light 300 shows the thin serifs and stroke contrast at title sizes above a Regular text block.

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 Inria 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 Inria 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: "Inria Serif";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InriaSerif-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inria Serif";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InriaSerif-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inria Serif";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InriaSerif-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inria Serif";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/InriaSerif-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 2 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Inria 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=Inria+Serif:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Three weights, no steps between

Only Light, Regular and Bold exist. There is no Medium or SemiBold, and the family is not a variable font.

Six static files

Each of the three weights has an upright and an italic file.

Latin scripts only

The 595 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

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