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Young Serif

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Young Serif webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Young Serif.

Young Serifthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

low x-heightwidehigh contrast

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 Young 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 Young Serif, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Inknut Antiqua webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Inknut Antiqua.

Inknut Antiquaslightly wider · slightly lighter

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Ribeye webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Ribeye.

Ribeyeslightly larger x-height · slightly higher contrast · slightly wider

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Alkalami webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Alkalami.

Alkalamislightly narrower · slightly smaller x-height · slightly lighter

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.

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Young Serif as a free alternative to

Young Serif is suggested on 2 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.

In the app

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