PT Serif Caption

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400PT Serif Caption Regular Italic

About PT Serif Caption

PT Serif Caption is a serif typeface drawn for small point sizes, the caption member of the six-style PT Serif family. Compared with a text serif, the specimen shows wide letters, loose spacing, little contrast between thick and thin strokes and heavy wedge-shaped serifs, features that keep letters apart when type is set small. There are two styles, Regular and Italic, and no bold. The fonts hold 720 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic. PT Serif came out of the Public Types of the Russian Federation programme, whose aim was that people across Russia could read and write in their own languages, and it was drawn as the partner of PT Sans, with matching metrics, proportions and weights. ParaType published the family in 2010; the designers are Alexandra Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where PT Serif Caption works

Captions and footnotes

The wide letters and open spacing were drawn for small point sizes, the range where picture captions, footnotes and source lines sit.

Fine print on labels and forms

Low stroke contrast and heavy serifs keep ingredient lists, terms and form notes from breaking up when printed small.

Russian and English side by side

Latin and Cyrillic are drawn as one design, so a caption in Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian matches its English counterpart.

Small text beside PT Sans

PT Serif shares metrics and proportions with PT Sans, so notes in the Caption cut line up with sans serif text from the same project.

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 Caption

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

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

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

Things to know

Regular and Italic only

PT Serif Caption has a single weight. Bold and bold italic belong to the main PT Serif family.

Spaced for small sizes

At headline sizes the specimen shows visibly open letter spacing; the main PT Serif family is the cut intended for ordinary text sizes.

Static files

The package contains two static TrueType files. PT Serif Caption is not a variable font.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All serif fonts