PT Serif

Try PT Serif

Weights and styles

• Regular 400PT Serif Regular Italic
• Bold 700PT Serif Bold Bold Italic

About PT Serif

PT Serif is a serif typeface in the transitional style, with humanist terminals, drawn for continuous reading. Contrast between thick and thin strokes is moderate, the serifs are sturdy, and the lowercase is fairly tall, which keeps the texture of a paragraph even. It is the second family of the Public Types of Russian Federation project, following PT Sans by a year, and it was harmonised with the sans in metrics, proportions and weights so the two can be combined. Alexandra Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov designed it for ParaType. The package provides Regular and Bold with their italics, the standard set for basic text setting; the official notes also mention caption cuts, which are not part of these files. Each font has 719 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic, including the title languages of the Russian Federation. It is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where PT Serif works

Books and long articles

Moderate contrast and sturdy serifs were chosen for text, with italic and bold for emphasis.

News and blog body copy in Russian

PT Serif is described as a pan-Cyrillic family, built to cover the languages of the Russian Federation.

Academic papers and reports

Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic cover running text, citations and headings.

Serif text with sans headings

Shared metrics with PT Sans keep line heights and sizes consistent when the two alternate.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, 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 PT 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 PT 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: "PT Serif";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PTSerif-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "PT Serif";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PTSerif-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "PT Serif";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PTSerif-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "PT Serif";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PTSerif-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Four styles in this package

Regular 400 and Bold 700 with italics. The caption cuts mentioned in the official notes are not included here.

Matched to PT Sans

Metrics, proportions and weights were coordinated with PT Sans.

Static fonts

PT Serif is not a variable font.

Latin and Cyrillic only

There is no Greek or Vietnamese subset.

FAQs

Collections with PT Serif

• Fonts for résumés and CVs

  Readable open-license serif and sans-serif families for a one- or two-page CV, with the weights and italics a document needs.

• Serif fonts for long reading on screens

  Text serifs drawn for screens or for long reading: large x-heights, moderate contrast and real italics for articles, blogs and documentation.

• Type systems with matching sans, serif and mono families

  Families designed to be used together: a sans, a serif or slab and often a monospace that share proportions, weights and character.

Similar fonts

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