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Extra Light: Serifs

Stephen Coles
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Last edited July 22, 2014

There aren’t many book serifs that are as ultra light over­all as those in the slab and sans cat­e­gories. Dis­play ver­sions of text serifs are gen­er­ally high con­trast, so there is usu­ally a mid-to-heavy part of the stroke. Nev­er­the­less, it can be useful to have a list of serif fonts that are very light in color.

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vortex
japanophilia
Law prohibits underwater smoking

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Hot and spicy duck heart

In designing Minion font, Robert Slimbach was inspired by the timeless beauty of the fonts of the late Renaissance. Minion was created primarily as a traditional text font but adapts well to today's digital technology, presenting the richness of the late baroque forms within modern text formats. This clear, balanced font is suitable for almost any use.

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ultraviolets
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Rayuela (Argentine Spanish for Hopscotch) is inspired by the homonymous novel by celebrated Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar, whose writings are considered key to 20th century avant-garde literature. Rayuela is the result of a 2-year working process, at two postgraduate courses followed by Alejandro Lo Celso at the University of Reading, UK (1999-2000) and later at the ANRT Atelier National de... Read More

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zygapophysis
Everything starts from a dot

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wunderkinder
If you're going through hell, keep walking

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Typolar 2009
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Adobe 2004
Robert Slimbach
Adobe 1992

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Per Baasch Jørgensen
FontFont 2007

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Sumner Stone
Stone Type Foundry
German Cartographic Design
Linotype