Open licence · Serif
PT Serif
Quiet luxury, approachable
The PT Serif webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not PT Serif.
Measured character
Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.
Fonts similar to PT Serif, measured
Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from PT Serif, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Gelasio webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Gelasio.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Charis SIL webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Charis SIL.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Abyssinica SIL webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Abyssinica SIL.
These are the first 3 of 746 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.
What $39 buys →PT Serif as a free alternative to
PT Serif is suggested on 12 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.
- Palatino Linotype commonly substituted
- Palatino Nova commonly substituted
- Plantin commonly substituted
- Times commonly substituted
- Times New Roman commonly substituted
- Century Schoolbook same classification
- Georgia same classification
- Greta Text same classification
- Karmina same classification
- New Century Schoolbook LT same classification
- Suisse Works same classification
- Tiempos Text same classification
In the app
Search the whole open catalogue by name, category and measured character, preview every result in your own words, and save it to a Board. Open the app — the shelf, search and the first three results of any search are free.