Commissioned for The Times to fit more words in a narrow newspaper column. It then became the most familiar serif in the world by being the default on every computer.
Download PT Serif, free ↗Google FontsTimes itself is licensed. PT Serif is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.
01Set it yourself
Set in PT SerifLoading the face
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02Put it to work
Your words from the specimen, set in PT Serif in the formats a project actually needs, in the colours you picked above.
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We design identities, websites and campaigns for people who care how things feel. This is the paragraph your headline sits on, set in PT Serif.
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Tip. Headline in PT Serif, standing in for Times, body copy in PT Serif. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.
03Every character
AU+0041 · PT Serif 700
72pxTimes
48pxTimes
32pxTimes
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
04The free stand-in: PT Serif
Why PT Serif. Newspaper-serif economy and familiarity without the licence. Times itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in PT Serif, which is free to use on the web and in print.
PT Serif, on its own. A transitional serif with newspaper economy. Large family, thoroughly screen-tested.
If Times is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.