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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
2 weights · italic · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of PT Serif
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.714
stroke weight
16% of cap height
0.156
contrast
Medium
0.534
letter width
Normal
0.957
Web embed
Use PT Serif on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=PT+Serif:wght@400;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* PT Serif */
body {
font-family: 'PT Serif', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
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Details
- Family
- PT Serif
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- ParaType
- Added to Google Fonts
- February 9, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext
About the PT Serif font
PT Serif is a serif typeface designed by ParaType, first released to Google Fonts on February 2011. It ships with 2 weights · italic and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 71% of the cap height, normal letter forms and medium stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare PT Serif against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether PT Serif is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.