FontsCrimson Text
Sebastian Kosch
SIL Open Font License, 1.1Crimson Text is a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful oldstyle typefaces.
There are a lot of great free fonts around, but one kind is missing: those Garamond-inspired types with all the little niceties like oldstyle figures, small caps, fleurons, math characters and the like. In fact, a lot of time is spend developing free knock-offs of ugly "standards" like Times and Helvetica.
Crimson Text is inspired by the fantastic work of people like Jan Tschichold, Robert Slimbach and Jonathan Hoefler. We hope that the free type community will one day be able to enjoy Crimson Text as a beautiful workhorse.
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.
Font views in the last week
20,283,750This is the total number of times Crimson Text was served by the Google Font API over the last week.
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This paragraph text uses Crimson Text, which is frequently spotted on the web with Droid Sans. Try them out together on your website!
This paragraph text uses Droid Sans, which is frequently spotted on the web with Crimson Text. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
Droid Serif
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Crimson Text
The header text above uses Droid Serif, and this body text uses Crimson Text. Try these fonts out together on your website - experiment with different sizes styles and weights. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
Lobster
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Crimson Text
The header text above uses Lobster, and this body text uses Crimson Text. Try these fonts out together on your website - experiment with different sizes styles and weights. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
This paragraph text uses Crimson Text, which is frequently spotted on the web with Cardo. Try them out together on your website!
This paragraph text uses Cardo, which is frequently spotted on the web with Crimson Text. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
Yanone Kaffeesatz
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Crimson Text
The header text above uses Yanone Kaffeesatz, and this body text uses Crimson Text. Try these fonts out together on your website - experiment with different sizes styles and weights. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
This paragraph text uses Crimson Text, which is frequently spotted on the web with Nobile. Try them out together on your website!
This paragraph text uses Nobile, which is frequently spotted on the web with Crimson Text. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
This paragraph text uses Crimson Text, which is frequently spotted on the web with Molengo. Try them out together on your website!
This paragraph text uses Molengo, which is frequently spotted on the web with Crimson Text. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
This paragraph text uses Crimson Text, which is frequently spotted on the web with Vollkorn. Try them out together on your website!
This paragraph text uses Vollkorn, which is frequently spotted on the web with Crimson Text. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!