Samples of serif typefaces

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This list of samples of Serif typefaces details standard fonts used in printing, classical typesetting and printing. For a list of the principal serif fonts used in mainstream graphical user interfaces, such as – for example – GNOME on Linux, see Samples of display typefaces, although in reality in modern computing most fonts are designed to be multi-purpose.

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Samples of Serif typefaces
Typeface name	Example 1	Example 2	Example 3
Adobe Jenson Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style
Aldus Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Old style
Alexandria Designer: Hank Gillette Class: Slab serif Sub-class: Geometric
Algerian Designer: Stephen Blake, Philip Kelly Class: Decorative
American Typewriter Designer: Joel Kaden & Tony Stan Class: Old style
Arno Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style
Aster Designer: Francesco Simoncini Class: Modern
Baskerville Designer: John Baskerville Class: Transitional
Bauer Bodoni Designer: Heinrich Jost Class: Modern
Bell Designer: Richard Austin Class: Modern
Bembo Designer: Stanley Morison Class: Old style
Benguiat Designer: Ed Benguiat Class: Decorative
Bernhard Modern Designer: Lucian Bernhard Class: Old style
Bodoni Designer: Giambattista Bodoni Class: Modern
Bookman Designer: Alexander Phemister Class: Old style
Bulmer Designer: William Martin Class: Transitional
Caledonia Designer: William Addison Dwiggins Class: Transitional
Calisto Designer: Ron Carpenter Class: Old style
Cambria Designer: Jelle Bosma Class: Other
Caslon Designer: William Caslon Class: Old style
Centaur Designer: Bruce Rogers Class: Old style
Century Schoolbook Designer: Morris Fuller Benton Class: Modern
Chaparral Designer: Carol Twombly Class: Slab serif Sub-class: Humanist
Cheltenham Designer: Bertram Goodhue & Ingalls Kimball Class: Old style
Clarendon Designer: Robert Besley Class: Slab serif
Computer Modern Designer: Donald Knuth Class: Modern
Constantia Class: Other
DejaVu Serif Class: Other
Didot Class: Modern
Droid Class: Other
Emerson Designer: Joseph Blumenthal Class: Old style
FF Scala Designer: Martin Majoor Class: Old style
Friz Quadrata Designer: Ernst Friz & Victor Caruso Class: Decorative
Garamond Designer: Claude Garamond & Jean Jannon Class: Old style
Gentium Designer: Victor Gaultney Class: Other
Georgia Designer: Matthew Carter Class: Transitional
Goudy Old Style Designer: Frederic Goudy Class: Old style
Granjon Designer: George W. Jones Class: Old style
Hoefler Text Designer: Jonathan Hoefler Class: Old style
Janson Designer: Chauncey H. Griffith Class: Old style
Junicode Designer: Peter S. Baker Class: Old style
Joanna Designer: Eric Gill Class: Transitional
Korinna Designer: Ed Benguiat & Vic Caruso Class: Decorative
Linux Libertine Class: Other
Literaturnaya Designer: Anatolii Shchukin Class: Transitional
Lucida Bright Designer: Charles Bigelow & Kris Holmes Class: Other
Minion Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style
Mrs Eaves Designer: Zuzana Licko Class: Transitional
MS Serif
New York Designer: Susan Kare, Charles Bigelow, and Kris Holmes Class: Transitional
Palatino Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Old style
Perpetua Designer: Eric Gill Class: Transitional
Rawlinson Roadway Designer: James Montalbano Class: Old style
Requiem Designer: Jonathan Hoefler Class: Old style
Rockwell Class: Slab serif
Rotis Designer: Otl Aicher Class: Other
Sabon Designer: Jan Tschichold Class: Old style
Times New Roman Designer: Stanley Morison Class: Transitional
Utopia Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Didone
Windsor Designer: Eleisha Pechey Class: Old style