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Martin Majoor made the first sketches for FF Seria in the fall of 1996 while he sat in the train from Berlin to Warsaw. As a book designer he had often had difficulty using FF Scala because the short ascenders and descenders gave a very “stubby” look inappropriate for literary books and poetry. For this reason FF Seria was drawn with extremely long ascenders and descenders and very fine detailing.

Having seen how well other designers combined FF Scala and FF Scala Sans, Majoor decided straight away to make a sans version for the Seria family. Like the serif version, FF Seria Sans has extremely long ascenders and descenders — remarkable for a sans serif face.

FF Seria fonts can be purchased individually, but the packages on this page offer the best value and performance. Discounted packages containing complimentary fonts ensure you get all the styles you need for professional typography.

While TrueType and PostScript formats are still available, we recommend the newer OpenType fonts to most customers as they offer the most versatility and ease-of-use, as well as compatibility with modern design applications.

The difference between “OT” and “Pro” OpenType fonts is in their language support. Read more about which fonts speak which languages.

FF Seria Arabic is the first Arabic typeface in the FontFont library. Pascal Zoghbi’s design was originally called Sada, the Arabic word for “echo”. Accordingly, this face is the echo of Martin Majoor’s FF Seria. FF Seria Arabic is a young crispy type based on the Nasekh style. The Regular and Bold are text typefaces, the Light is both display and text type, while the Black is purely a display typeface.