Here are our favourite serif fonts that are trending in 2025, for all design projects from website design and other digital projects to print and other traditional designs. Serif fonts lend a timeless hint of class to a design and allow graphic designers to get more creative and combine readability with style. Serif fonts are a great choice for branding, especially for titles and headings. Check out our top ten serif fonts below and click through to download each font to try it yourself.

Fun fact: did you know that serif fonts date back to ancient Roman times? In fact, the Trajan font that you have probably seen on a million film posters was inspired by letters carved into Trajan’s Column in Rome, which celebrates Roman emperor Trajan’s victory in the Dacian wars.

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Romie Regular is a classy typeface designed by Margot Lévêque. Inspired by 1960s fashion, Art Nouveau and calligraphy, this font supports over 300 languages. Available in 12 styles including light, bold, italic and heavy, Romie Regular is ideal for display fonts, e.g. in high-end magazines or packaging for luxury products. Romie Regular is just as strong in upper and lower cases, featuring decorative ligatures and strokes even at the end of the serifs which adds interest and makes for a highly aesthetic and distinctive typeface.

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Created by Jan Maack of the Ivy Foundry in 2020, IvyPresto is an Old Style display font featuring slanted ascender serifs and high contrast between light and heavy strokes. IvyPrestio has a large x-height and relatively narrow proportions, making it a very practical and attractive display font. Available in three optical sizes and 10 styles including bold and italic, this font offers both flexibility and style. 

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The Auge font is a wedged serif font that is striking and unique, yet very readable with precise serifs and balanced classical proportions. Designed by FontFabric and inspired by the insect world, Auge is versatile and adaptable, making it suitable for a variety of design projects. Auge supports 130 languages and is available in 8 weights all with matching italics.

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If you are looking for a traditional serif font but don’t want to resort to anything as generic as Times New Roman, Miller is for you. Created by Matthew Carter of Font Bureau in 1997, Miller is inspired by early 19th-century typefaces used for newspapers and used by some contemporary publications such as the Boston Globe. A fairly narrow typeface, Miller is ideal for using when you need to fit a lot of information into a relatively small space, making it suitable for headlines and other tasks where space is at a premium. 

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This elegant font is suitable for both title and display as well as long-form copy, thanks to its legibility and multiple available weights and styles. PP Editorial New has an almost retro 90’s feel to it without looking dated, making it a good choice for fashion brands and similar projects. It features a traditional serif style combined with larger curves which become even bolder at heavier weights, adding more interest but retaining legibility.

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This elegant font is suitable for both title and display as well as long-form copy, thanks to its legibility and multiple available weights and styles. PP Editorial New has an almost retro 90’s feel to it without looking dated, making it a good choice for fashion brands and similar projects. It features a traditional serif style combined with larger curves which become even bolder at heavier weights, adding more interest but retaining legibility.

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Created by Jessica Walsh of Type Of Feeling, Ssonder is a sophisticated display font that features extravagant Art Nouveau-style curves and ligatures that connect each letter. ‘Sonder’ refers to the realisation that every person on earth has their own life and complex inner world, just as the observer does. Ssonder expresses this through the connections between the letters. Ssonder would elevate branding, signage and other projects that demand a very stylised, visually stunning font.

Lora is a contemporary font that does not look out of place in more traditional settings, holding its own when compared to the classics like Times New Roman, Baskerville or Garamond. Created in 2011 by Vernon Adams and widely available for free, Lora offers support in many languages using the Latin and Cyrillic scripts and is designed for body text that works equally well on screen as in print.

This is a fun font designed by Gabriel Reyes that was inspired by 19th-century Filipino typography found on banknotes and product packaging and makes a very retro and stylish display font. Tropikal is great for editorial design, titles and logos, and its tilted cross bars and sharp edges help it stand out among other retro-style fonts without looking too quirky to be taken seriously. Tropikal is very versatile, equally at home in vintage style or contemporary graphics.

It is a surprise to see a serif font showing up in the Roboto family, but Roboto Slab with its thick, blocky serifs is like a long-lost cousin that is just as readable and versatile as other Roboto variations. Roboto Slab works at any size and stands up as a display font as well as body text. Roboto is a good choice for use in projects that demand consistency but will add some variation when combined with its sans-serif counterparts.