Source Serif is a serif

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created by Frank Grießhammer for

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. It is the third

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font family from Adobe, distributed under the

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. The typeface is inspired by the forms of

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and is a complementary design to the Source Sans family. It is available in six weights in upright styles and

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, and five

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s. It is also available as a

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with continuous weights from 200 to 900. The first version, named "Source Serif Pro", was released in 2014. Version 2.0 was released in 2017 and introduced support for more Latin characters, Cyrillic, and Greek. In 2018, Latin italics were added in version "2.007R-ro/1.007R-it". In 2019, Greek and Cyrillic italic were added in version "3.000R". In 2021, a new release added optical sizes; the name "Pro" was dropped at this point.

References

External links

Source Serif on Typekit

Source Serif specimen on GitHub

GitHub project page
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See also

Adobe's open-source family

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