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Source Serif Pro

Designed By

Frank Grießhammer

12 Styles Serif

The pleasure
of a well-set
page.

Source Serif Pro · Regular

Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.

12 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.

Download Source Serif Pro ↓

TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

Second printing, with corrections

A Page In Source Serif Pro

Source Serif Pro · Regular

Headings, labels and running text.

Notes From The Reading Room

The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.

A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.

12 Styles,
One Family

Every available style is shown below in its own font file.

Extra Light200

Second printing, with corrections

Extra Light Italic200

Second printing, with corrections

Light300

Second printing, with corrections

Light Italic300

Second printing, with corrections

Regular400

Second printing, with corrections

Italic400

Second printing, with corrections

Semi Bold600

Second printing, with corrections

Semi Bold Italic600

Second printing, with corrections

Bold700

Second printing, with corrections

Bold Italic700

Second printing, with corrections

Black900

Second printing, with corrections

Black Italic900

Second printing, with corrections

Bulgarian readers expect several Cyrillic letters to take different shapes from the Russian ones, and Source Serif Pro keeps those shapes in a stylistic set, ss01. Switch it on for a Bulgarian text and the letters change throughout. ss02 does the same for Serbian and Macedonian.

The design is Frank Grießhammer’s, for Adobe. It came out in 2014 as Adobe’s third open-source family, drawn to go with Paul D. Hunt’s Source Sans, and the model, followed at a distance, was Pierre Simon Fournier. Greek and Cyrillic arrived with version 2.0 in 2017, the italics in 2018. Later on the Pro was dropped and optical sizes came in, and the design carries on as Source Serif 4; what you get here are the Pro files at version 3.001.

There are 12 styles, Extra Light at 200 through Black at 900, and the roman and italic of each weight share a good deal:

  • the same 907 characters, Latin, Vietnamese, Greek and Cyrillic, so an italic Greek word is no trouble
  • old style, lining, tabular and proportional figures, with fractions and a slashed zero

Small caps are the exception, found in the romans only.

A line of it holds nearly as many words as Georgia does, under 2% fewer, which makes it an easy swap on a page already laid out for that face. Would we set a thesis in it? Yes, in Regular with old style figures, and we’d keep Black for a book jacket or a poster title.

Source Serif Pro type specimen with letters and figures
Source Serif Pro · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

907 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
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The Font Files

Download
Source Serif Pro

12 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 1.1 MB ↓
Version
3.001
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Read The Font License ↗

Install On Your Computer

Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.

Use On A Website

Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.

<link rel="stylesheet"
  href="/fonts/source-serif-pro-2/source-serif-pro-2.css">

body {
  font-family: 'Source Serif Pro', sans-serif;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.

Source Serif Pro Heading · Inter Body

Notes From The Reading Room

The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.