Crimson Text

Classification

Old Style Garalde Serif

Font Technology

Static font
3 weights, 2 styles

How To Use Crimson Text

To use Crimson Text in your web project, either search Google Fonts and use their embed code or host the font on your server and use the CSS below. Note: fonts served by Google Fonts may be missing some OpenType features that are available in the original font.
Download Crimson Text
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Crimson Text';
  src: url('<YOUR SERVER PATH>CrimsonText-Regular.ttf') format(woff2);
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Crimson Text';
  src: url('<YOUR SERVER PATH>CrimsonText-SemiBold.ttf') format(woff2);
  font-weight: 600;
  font-style: normal;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Crimson Text';
  src: url('<YOUR SERVER PATH>CrimsonText-Bold.ttf') format(woff2);
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Crimson Text';
  src: url('<YOUR SERVER PATH>CrimsonText-Italic.ttf') format(woff2);
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Crimson Text';
  src: url('<YOUR SERVER PATH>CrimsonText-SemiBoldItalic.ttf') format(woff2);
  font-weight: 600;
  font-style: italic;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Crimson Text';
  src: url('<YOUR SERVER PATH>CrimsonText-BoldItalic.ttf') format(woff2);
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
}

Description

Crimson Text is a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful oldstyle typefaces. There are a lot of great free fonts around, but one kind is missing: those Garamond-inspired types with all the little niceties like oldstyle figures, small caps, fleurons, math characters and the like. In fact, a lot of time is spend developing free knock-offs of ugly "standards" like Times and Helvetica. Crimson Text is inspired by the fantastic work of people like Jan Tschichold, Robert Slimbach and Jonathan Hoefler. We hope that the free type community will one day be able to enjoy Crimson Text as a beautiful workhorse. Several important bug fixes have been brought in March 2022, including the harmonisation of the line-spacing across all styles. To contribute, see github.com/googlefonts/Crimson .

Designer

Sebastian Kosch

Copyright

Copyright 2010 The Crimson Text Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/Crimson)

OpenType Features

Discretionary ligatures
Fractions
Standard ligatures
Subscript
Superscript
Slashed Zero

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Crimson Text regular
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears.
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Arbitrary Fractions
diagonal-fractions
1/2 1/3 2/3 3/4 5/8 15/16 1234/5678
Discretionary ligatures
default css
font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1
Th
Th
ffb
ffb
ffh
ffh
ffj
ffj
ffk
ffk
fb
fb
fh
fh
fj
fj
fk
fk
Fractions
default css
font-feature-settings: "frac" 1
1/4
1/4
1/2
1/2
3/4
3/4
Standard ligatures
font-variant-ligatures: none
font-feature-settings: "liga" 1
ffi
ffi
ffl
ffl
ff
ff
fi
fi
fl
fl
Slashed Zero
default css
font-feature-settings: "zero" 1
0
0
Crimson Text 600
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears.
, : ; ? ! " “ ” ' ‘ ’ « » ′ ″ ( ) [ ] { } 〈 〉 - – — ‒ ― / | ⁄ … • · § ¶ * ~ ^ ° © ® ™
Arbitrary Fractions
diagonal-fractions
1/2 1/3 2/3 3/4 5/8 15/16 1234/5678
Discretionary ligatures
default css
font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1
Th
Th
ffb
ffb
ffh
ffh
ffj
ffj
ffk
ffk
fb
fb
fh
fh
fj
fj
fk
fk
Fractions
default css
font-feature-settings: "frac" 1
1/4
1/4
1/2
1/2
3/4
3/4
Standard ligatures
font-variant-ligatures: none
font-feature-settings: "liga" 1
ffi
ffi
ffl
ffl
ff
ff
fi
fi
fl
fl
Slashed Zero
default css
font-feature-settings: "zero" 1
0
0
Crimson Text 700
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears.
, : ; ? ! " “ ” ' ‘ ’ « » ′ ″ ( ) [ ] { } 〈 〉 - – — ‒ ― / | ⁄ … • · § ¶ * ~ ^ ° © ® ™
Arbitrary Fractions
diagonal-fractions
1/2 1/3 2/3 3/4 5/8 15/16 1234/5678
Discretionary ligatures
default css
font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1
Th
Th
ffb
ffb
ffh
ffh
ffj
ffj
ffk
ffk
fb
fb
fh
fh
fj
fj
fk
fk
Fractions
default css
font-feature-settings: "frac" 1
1/4
1/4
1/2
1/2
3/4
3/4
Standard ligatures
font-variant-ligatures: none
font-feature-settings: "liga" 1
ffi
ffi
ffl
ffl
ff
ff
fi
fi
fl
fl
Slashed Zero
default css
font-feature-settings: "zero" 1
0
0
Crimson Text italic
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears.
, : ; ? ! " “ ” ' ‘ ’ « » ′ ″ ( ) [ ] { } 〈 〉 - – — ‒ ― / | ⁄ … • · § ¶ * ~ ^ ° © ® ™
Arbitrary Fractions
diagonal-fractions
1/2 1/3 2/3 3/4 5/8 15/16 1234/5678
Discretionary ligatures
default css
font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1
Th
Th
ffb
ffb
ffh
ffh
ffj
ffj
ffk
ffk
fb
fb
fh
fh
fj
fj
fk
fk
Fractions
default css
font-feature-settings: "frac" 1
1/4
1/4
1/2
1/2
3/4
3/4
Standard ligatures
font-variant-ligatures: none
font-feature-settings: "liga" 1
ffi
ffi
ffl
ffl
ff
ff
fi
fi
fl
fl
Slashed Zero
default css
font-feature-settings: "zero" 1
0
0
Crimson Text 600italic
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears.
, : ; ? ! " “ ” ' ‘ ’ « » ′ ″ ( ) [ ] { } 〈 〉 - – — ‒ ― / | ⁄ … • · § ¶ * ~ ^ ° © ® ™
Arbitrary Fractions
diagonal-fractions
1/2 1/3 2/3 3/4 5/8 15/16 1234/5678
Discretionary ligatures
default css
font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1
Th
Th
ffb
ffb
ffh
ffh
ffj
ffj
ffk
ffk
fb
fb
fh
fh
fj
fj
fk
fk
Fractions
default css
font-feature-settings: "frac" 1
1/4
1/4
1/2
1/2
3/4
3/4
Standard ligatures
font-variant-ligatures: none
font-feature-settings: "liga" 1
ffi
ffi
ffl
ffl
ff
ff
fi
fi
fl
fl
Slashed Zero
default css
font-feature-settings: "zero" 1
0
0
Crimson Text 700italic
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears.
, : ; ? ! " “ ” ' ‘ ’ « » ′ ″ ( ) [ ] { } 〈 〉 - – — ‒ ― / | ⁄ … • · § ¶ * ~ ^ ° © ® ™
Arbitrary Fractions
diagonal-fractions
1/2 1/3 2/3 3/4 5/8 15/16 1234/5678
Discretionary ligatures
default css
font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1
Th
Th
ffb
ffb
ffh
ffh
ffj
ffj
ffk
ffk
fb
fb
fh
fh
fj
fj
fk
fk
Fractions
default css
font-feature-settings: "frac" 1
1/4
1/4
1/2
1/2
3/4
3/4
Standard ligatures
font-variant-ligatures: none
font-feature-settings: "liga" 1
ffi
ffi
ffl
ffl
ff
ff
fi
fi
fl
fl
Slashed Zero
default css
font-feature-settings: "zero" 1
0
0