PT Serif

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What do I do with this?

Just want to use the font? Click "Get this font on Google Fonts" to download it or add it directly to a document, design tool (like Canva or Photoshop), or your computer's font list.

Building a website? Click "Copy Font Code" to copy a short snippet, then paste it into your website's HTML (usually inside the <head> section) to use this font on your site.

PT Serif is a transitional serif typeface with sturdy, well-balanced letterforms that sit comfortably between classical elegance and modern readability. Its strokes have moderate contrast, serifs are sharp but not fragile, and the overall texture on the page feels solid and authoritative without being rigid. It reads cleanly at both large display sizes and smaller body text, which makes it a genuinely versatile workhorse. The personality it projects is intelligent and dependable, leaning toward the academic or literary rather than the decorative or corporate.

PT Serif works well in long-form editorial content such as online magazines, news platforms, and blog publishing where sustained readability matters. It is also a strong choice for educational or institutional websites, think universities, research organizations, or government portals, where a sense of credibility and formal seriousness is appropriate without feeling cold. Additionally, it suits book or publishing brand identities where the printed-page tradition needs to translate naturally into a digital context, giving both print and screen materials a consistent and trustworthy typographic voice.

Best suited for: PT Serif suits long-form digital publishing, academic websites, editorial platforms, and institutional contexts where authoritative readability and formal credibility are priorities.

Design considerations: The typeface offers four core variants—regular, italic, bold, and bold italic—providing sufficient typographic hierarchy for most editorial layouts without requiring extensive font loading. Its transitional serif structure balances classical proportion with modern screen performance across body text and display applications.

Pairing guidance: Pair PT Serif with Raleway for a classic contrast between serif body text and clean sans-serif headers, with Merriweather to layer serif-on-serif hierarchy using different weights and proportions, or with Playfair Display to combine PT Serif's editorial foundation with a more distinctive serif display voice for headlines and feature typography.

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PT Serif at a glance

All 4 PT Serif styles

PT Serif character map

Which languages does PT Serif support?

PT Serif includes 4 character sets:

• Cyrillic: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian and other Cyrillic-script languages
• Cyrillic Extended: additional Cyrillic letters used in languages such as Kazakh, Tatar and Bashkir
• Latin: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and other Western European languages
• Latin Extended: Central and Eastern European languages such as Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian and Hungarian

Can I use PT Serif commercially?

Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. PT Serif is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in logos, websites, apps, videos, printed products and merchandise without paying or asking permission. The one thing you can't do is sell the font file on its own.

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