Open licence · Serif
Source Serif 4
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Serif 4 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Serif 4.
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 Source Serif 4, 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 Source Serif 4, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Domine webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Domine.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Literata webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Literata.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Brawler webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Brawler.
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What $39 buys →Source Serif 4 as a free alternative to
Source Serif 4 is suggested on 26 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.
- Baskerville same classification
- Benton Modern same classification
- Cambria same classification
- Chronicle Text same classification
- Darby Serif same classification
- Domaine Text same classification
- Elena same classification
- Exchange same classification
- Fedra Serif same classification
- FF Meta Serif same classification
- Fortescue same classification
- Freight Text same classification
- Greta Text same classification
- ITC New Baskerville same classification
- Karmina same classification
- Lava same classification
- Mercury Text same classification
- Miller Text same classification
- Monotype Baskerville same classification
- Portada same classification
- Publico same classification
- Suisse Works same classification
- TheSerif same classification
- Tiempos Text same classification
- Times same classification
- Times New Roman 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.