Libertinus Serif

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Libertinus Serif Regular Italic
• SemiBold 600Libertinus Serif SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Libertinus Serif Bold Bold Italic

About Libertinus Serif

Libertinus Serif is a serif family built for continuous reading. In the specimen the letters show moderate contrast between thick and thin strokes, bracketed serifs, a fairly small lowercase with long ascenders, and a capital Q whose tail sweeps under the next letter. The texture is that of a traditional book face; nothing in it is drawn for effect. The family has Regular 400, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700, each with an italic, six static styles in total, and it is not a variable font. Its 2,398 glyphs reach well beyond basic Latin: Latin Extended, Vietnamese, Greek with its extended set, Cyrillic with its extended set, and Hebrew are all present. Philipp H. Poll is the credited designer, and the font's name table adds Khaled Hosny. Libertinus Serif is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Libertinus Serif works

Books and long-form print

Moderate contrast and bracketed serifs give an even page, and true italics handle titles and emphasis.

Academic papers and theses

Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew sit in the same files as Latin, so quotations in those scripts need no second typeface.

Multilingual editions

Latin Extended, Vietnamese and both extended Greek and Cyrillic sets cover parallel texts and scholarly apparatus.

Article pages on the web

Regular for text with SemiBold for subheads keeps a reading page inside one family.

Reports with structured headings

A SemiBold between Regular and Bold allows a third level of emphasis in headings and tables.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, hebrew, 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

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

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Libertinus 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=Libertinus+Serif:ital,wght@0,400;0,600;0,700;1,400;1,600;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

SemiBold and Bold both have italics

All three weights are paired with an italic, giving six styles in separate static files.

Four scripts

Besides Latin, the font includes Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew character sets, plus Vietnamese.

Credits differ slightly

The designer field lists Philipp H. Poll; the name table lists Philipp H. Poll and Khaled Hosny, and names Caleb Maclennan as manufacturer.

FAQs

Collections with Libertinus Serif

• Serif fonts for academic and scholarly writing

  Text families with very large character sets for theses, journals and critical editions: Greek, Cyrillic, phonetic and historical characters.

• Fonts that cover several writing systems

  Families that set Latin together with three or more other scripts in one design, for multilingual sites, apps and documents.

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