Choosing the perfect, elegant font is a task that many designers find challenging. A font is more than just its aesthetic; it conveys meaning and emotion, and reflects the personality of a brand. We understand how daunting it can be to narrow down the thousands of choices, so for the purpose of saving you time and a lot of headaches, we’ve selected the best 23 elegant serifs out there! We’re certain this article will help you find the exact font you’ve been looking for to transform your designs.
From the classic Roman style to a chic modern take on the serif font, including some bonus logos and textures, this extensive selection we’ve collated will get you inspired to create and boost your brand.
In this article you will find the elegant serif fonts:
1. La Luxes Font Duo + Logos
2. Abigail – Unique Ligature Font
3. Coldiac – Luxury Serif Font
4. Silver South Font Duo
5. Classico – Modern Serif Font
6. Moon Crowd – Elegant & Stylish Serif
7. Kinfolk – Modern Serif Font
8. Sage – Serif Typeface
9. Coral Blush Font Duo + Extras
10. Angle
1. La Luxes Font Duo + Logos
Indulge yourself in a luxurious typography pairing with La Luxes; a classic font duo consisting of an elegant Script & ligature-rich Serif. The perfect pair to create stunning stationary or beautiful branding for your business.
First of the pair is La Luxes Script – a clean, elegant hand-drawn script font containing upper & lowercase characters, all punctuation and numerals. Also contains 30 ligatures to help the text flow naturally and add a custom-made feel. Secondly, La Luxes Serif – a stylish & modern all-caps serif containing uppercase & new lowercase characters, all punctuation & numerals. Also contains 38 ligatures and 11 special characters giving you a variety of layout options.
Also included in this product are 10 bonus logo templates, allowing you to easily edit the designs you see in the images above and create stunning logos in minutes. (Logo templates require Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator to open).
Included in this set:
- La Luxes Script
- La Luxes Serif
- 10 Logo Templates • The 10 logo designs shown in the images above are also included as editable logo files. Simply open any of the templates with Photoshop or Illustrator, edit the text and choose your own colours if you wish. Logos are fully vector and can be scaled to any size without quality loss.
- Both fonts contain a large range of ligatures (unique double-letter pairings) to provide you with more customisation options. Most programs will automatically have Standard Ligatures switched on for you, but if you need any help accessing them, please feel free to drop me a message.
- The Serif font contains a number of raised ‘small caps’ (A, E, O, U, C) and characters with elongated tails (L, K, R,). These can be accessed by switching on ‘Stylistic Alternates’ in any OpenType capable software and typing these characters. The star icon can be accessed simply by typing the asterisk key (*) with the Serif font.
- All Ligatures and Special Characters can also be accessed via a Glyphs panel. The stylised vertical ‘AND’ and ‘CO’ icons can only be accessed this way.
2. Abigail – Unique Ligature Font
Abigail is a classy, elegant, and unique font. The stylish serif font has a touch of glamour with the curvy and slick ligatures.
Based on our experience as graphic designers who work for a lot of companies, we are often requested to design a logo in a unique style but with an elegant shape. We tried brainstorming thus creating this unique and elegant serif font to meet designer’s needs. This is therefore perfect for branding and logo design.
Abigail – Unique Ligature Font
Included in this set:
- 50+ unique ligatures
- Modern and classy font
- Uppercase and lowercase letters
- Numerals and punctuation
3. Coldiac – Luxury Serif Font
Introducing Coldiac – Luxury Serif Font, a modern serif font family whose design refers us to the style of transitional serifs. The distinctive features of Coldiac are the relatively low contrast of strokes, the slightly squarish shapes of round characters and the emphasized businesslike nature.
Coldiac – Luxury Serif Font has been crafted from scratch with a structural logic of its own: a fusion of pure geometry and optical balance. By combining a variety of styles Coldiac, is suitable for logos, greeting cards, quotes, posters, branding, name card, stationary, design title, blog header, art quote, typography.
Included in this set:
- Coldiac Regular (.OTF/.TTF)
- Coldiac Italic (.OTF/.TTF)
4. Silver South Font Duo
Introducing the Silver South Font Duo, a classy, contemporary pair of script and serif fonts.
With a stylish Didot-style serif font and a free-flowing, expressive script companion, Silver South offers beautiful typographic harmony for a diversity of design projects, including logos & branding, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements & product designs.
Your download will include 4 font files, designed to work as perfect companions or simply as strong standalone typefaces.
Included in this set:
- Silver South Script: A clean, free-flowing script font containing upper & lowercase characters, numerals and a large range of punctuation.
- Silver South Script Alt: This is the second version of Silver South Script, with a completely new set of upper & lowercase characters. If you wanted to avoid letters looking the same each time to recreate a custom-made style, or try a different word shape, simply switch to this font for an additional layout option.
- Silver South Serif: A classy serif font containing upper & lowercase characters, numerals and a large range of punctuation. Creates a perfect pairing contrast with the Silver South Script fonts.
- Silver South Ligatures: Simply type any a-z lowercase character, or A-L uppercase character in this font to generate a ligature, if you are unable to access them with opentype software. (If you have opentype software, ‘Discretionary Ligatures’ can be turned on for the Script fonts, which will automatically switch standard letter pairs into the provided ligatures).
- Silver South Script also contains 2 swashes assigned to the { and } keys.
5. Classico – Modern Serif Font
Classico is a fancy serif font that is both classic and minimal. A modern take on an original style, this serif font will add a slick professional look to any project or proposal.
Classico is a unique mix between a serif and sans serif. A light, high contrast font that is perfect for feminine logo marks, fashion mastheads & editorial design. Classico has a regular and bold version plus multilingual support.
Included in this set:
- Letters, numbers, punctuation.
- Bold and regular versions
6. Moon Crowd – Elegant & Stylish Serif
Presenting Moon Crowd, a brand new ligature serif font inspired by unbeatable elegance and beauty of fashion! This elegant serif font comes with over 100 ligatures and alternate letters. Each of the standard letters, ligatures, and alternates was handcrafted and made to fit other letters without exception. All letters are 100% unique with soft rounded edges that will give you a different look than any other serif font.
So, whether you have a client that needs a new chic logo, or you’re designing your social media posts. Maybe you’re preparing your wedding mood board, stationery, invitations, Moon Crowd Ligature font is just perfect for all of that and more. Check out the previews to see what you can do with it and happy creating!
Moon Crowd – Elegant & Stylish Serif
Included in this set:
- Moon Crowd .otf – Main font with 100+ ligatures and alternates for an amazing look for all your projects
- 90+ Ligatures & Alternate letters
- Lowercase and Uppercase letters
- Numerals & Punctuation
- Accented characters
- Web Font Kit is included as well
7. Kinfolk – Modern Serif Font
Create modern, gorgeous headlines and elegant designs with this unique font. Kinfolk is a classic serif font that has been modernised with its unique curves and cut-ins making it one of the most memorable caps fonts on the market.
This versatile serif font can be used for word-mark logos, mastheads, pull quotes & monograms showing both feminine and masculine qualities.
Included in this set:
- Kinfolk – Modern Serif font
8. Sage – Serif Typeface
Sage is a modern but classic serif font with lots of style. A high contrast version of a famous Didot look that has been synonymous with fashion for decades. A striking and vintage feel in this unique font.
This font has over 100 glyphs with multilingual letters included. This font is both modern and nostalgic and works great for logos, mastheads and pull quotes. It pairs beautifully with a minimal sans serif or light script font.
Included in this set:
- .OTF and web font versions
- Full upper and lower case
- Numbers, punctuation, multilingual accents
9. Coral Blush Font Duo + Extras
Explore a stunning typography pairing with Coral Blush; a carefully crafted and perfectly balanced set of elegant serif fonts and realistic script typefaces. The impactful serif font will stand out in all designs, paired with the sweet script to make a super unique look.
Also included are 9 subtle paper textures, allowing you to jump right in and create stunning designs within minutes. This perfect combination will be great for any packaging, advertising on social media, branding, invitations, posters and more.
Included in this set:
- Coral Blush Serif • An all-caps Serif font containing uppercase, all punctuation & numerals.
- Coral Blush Script • A thin and realistic textured handwriting font, hand-drawn with a real fine-tip pen. Contains, lowercase, uppercase, all punctuation & numerals. Also includes 88 built-in ligatures.
- Coral Blush Script Alt • This is a second version of Montrose Script, with a completely new set of upper & lowercase characters.
- 9 Paper Textures • 9 high quality, subtle paper textures for use in your projects. Provided in .JPG image formats, size A4 at 300dpi.
- 88 Script Ligatures • Coral Blush Script fonts contain 88 ligatures (double letter glyphs) to help your text flow more naturally and recreate authentic, handwritten text. Many programs will automatically have this feature switched on for you, but if you need any help accessing them, please feel free to drop me a message.
10. Angle
Introducing Angle, a unique and chic font for brand and logo design. The sharp stylistic ligatures add depth and dimension to a variety of designs.
You will get classy, elegant, and certainly unique logos with this font. Additionally, this serif font will work perfectly on packaging, branding, headlines, website design, social media campaigns and many more professional projects.
Included in this set:
- 40+ unique ligatures
- Over 100 great combinations for brands
- Uppercase and lowercase letters
- Numerals and punctuation
11. Muse – Chic Display Serif
Muse – a chic & elegant display modern serif with beautiful contrast. A vintage aesthetic to add class and style to your work, this thing elegant serif font is straight to the point and creates an impact.
Specially designed for fashion-themed projects, perfectly suitable for creating elegant, chic, lifestyle design such as logos, title, and magazine, and more. The font features standard ligatures.
Included in this set:
- HV Muse Font
- 6 free logo templates (.JPG, .AI)
- Ligatures
- All Europeans languages
12. Hunter
Hunter is an elegant, unique serif font that uses ligatures to smoothly link letters. The smooth, sensual ligatures add individuality to your work and would help any brand stand out and make an impact.
Perfect for adding a unique twist to word-mark logos, monograms or pull quotes, Hunter has 20 ligatures as well as numbers and punctuation making it super versatile. Ligatures are able to be turned off if needed for body copy. Plus, I have thrown in 4 bonus editable logos!
Included in this set:
- .OTF font with numbers and punctuation
- Web Font included
- Bonus editable .EPS logos included
13. Sundays – Modern Serif Font
Sundays is an elegant serif font that mixes the modern and classic. Inspired by fonts like Baskerville, I have thinned out the classic serif font adding subtle curves and minimal serifs.
This sweet and calming serif font will be great for mastheads, magazines, logos and headers as well as social media campaigns, packaging, book covers and more.
Included in this set:
- Sundays Modern Serif Font
14. Colgent – Elegant Serif Typeface
Colgent is a modern serif font with a unique style, a light and high contrast font to add a quality style to all designs.
Colgent is perfect for feminine logo signs, fashion heads & editorial designs, branding projects, logo design, clothes branding, packaging, magazine headings, advertising, T-shirts, postcards and much more.
Colgent – Elegant Serif Typeface
Included in this set:
- Colgent Regular .OTF, .TTF, .WOFF
- Colgent Italic .OTF, .TTF, .WOFF
15. Olive & Figs – Regal Classic Serif
Olive & Figs – a classic Roman-culture-inspired calligraphic serif with an elegant, regal, artistic touch. An eclectic design style created to inject a vintage aura in all your work.
Specially designed for regal, classy projects, perfectly suitable for creating elegant, simple, lifestyle designs such as logos, title, packaging, and more.
Olive & Figs – Regal Classic Serif
Included in this set:
- HV Olive & Figs Regular Font (.ttf, .otf & .woff)
- HV Olive & Figs Italic Font (.ttf, .otf & .woff)
- 6 free logo templates
16. Danielle Harris – Editorial Font
Introducing, Danielle Harris. A typeface with a modern yet classy feel! This slick and elegant serif font works great in all caps to create impact as well as lowercase to add a more delicate effect.
This editorial style serif font will work perfect for those who need a typeface for headline, logotype, apparel, invitation, branding, packaging, advertising etc.
Danielle Harris – Editorial Font
Included in this set:
- Danielle Harris .OTF
17. Canvas
Canvas is a family of high-contrast serif fonts. Canvas is a modern style “Didoni”. The typefamily includes 3 weights – light, regular and black. The hairlines in all of the fonts are very thin.
Canvas will be perfect for many projects: fashion, magazines, logos, branding, photography, wedding invitations, quotes, blog headers, posters, advertisements, etc.
Included in this set:
- Uppercase & lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation
18. Indigo Moon Decadent Serif
Introducing Indigo Moon – a decadent, classic serif font with over 150 hand-illustrated alternates, and preserved texture, for a uniquely vintage, yet modern feel.
Each letterform has a slightly rough exterior that works beautifully to enhance Indigo Moon’s soft, conventional details. This versatile display typeface has enough character for logos and branding, as well as headlines, apparel, bridal and more. Keep it classic, or get decorative with ornate alternates for both uppercase and lowercase glyphs!
Included in this set:
- Indigo Moon Typeface with over 150 hand-illustrated alternates and European Language Support (.OTF & .TTF).
- A bonus set of hand-drawn watercolor floral elements in .PNG & .PSD formats.
19. Mireille
Mireille is an elegant serif font which is ideal for creating identities for branding, posters, book covers, headlines, logotypes, restaurants, menu cards, wedding invitations and so on. Your journey through gourmet food, classical music, opera, and wine tours over 100 romantic alternates and ligatures that allow you to add outstanding elegance to your typography.
All your needs are supported by Mireille. Take care: you might have a crush on this typeface – La vie, c’est beau!
Included in this set:
- 7 Weights
- 1084 Characters
- 112 Stylistic Alternates
- 17 Predefined Fractions
- 11 Currency Symbols
- 10 Stylistic Sets
20. Marschel Pro Scripture Font
Introducing Marschel Pro, an extraordinary serif font with a fantasy feel. You can spark magic in any design with this font.
Marschel Pro Scripture Font consists of more than 400+ glyphs including special characters, unique ligatures and allows you to mix and match so much pairs of letters. This beautiful serif font is perfect for weddings, headline, movie title, logos, branding, invitations, quotes, social media, websites, magazine and so much more.
Included in this set:
- Marschel Pro
21. Revista Font Family
Revista is a typographic system that brings together all the features to undertake any fashion magazine-oriented project. The font harmoniously blends different styles into a single big family, which consists of a Didone uppercase and small caps family—including 4 variants ranging from a monolinear Thin to Black with matching italics—and an Inline Black variant that works as a decorative alternative to the Didone fonts. Revista Stencil, one of its versions, comes with the same number of variants.
Revista also comes with a Script Family that includes 5 weights, ranging from Thin (monolinear) to Black, contrasting in a tidily untidy way with many ligatures and alternates. You can choose between using stylistic alternates — if you want to give your designs a different untidy look, in the style of the modern calligraphy — or switching between different options if you are looking for a hand-written style.
Included in this set:
- Revista Font Family
- 2 sets of dingbats, varying from zodiac signs symbols to technology symbols
- Complementary ornaments in 3 different weights: Thin (monolinear), Regular and Black.
22. Selna
Selna is a modern, elegant serif font that includes four typefaces (regular, outline, oblique, and outline oblique). This font has a light weight and looks amazing in logos, branding, arranging wedding invitations, business cards, packaging, titles and much more and also works perfectly with text, it is very readable and recognizable.
This font also includes alternates for Uppercase and Lowercase, with them you can make your project more elegant and unique and the slanted style will add dynamics to your design. This font is easy to use has OpenType features.
Included in this set:
- Full alphabet with Uppercase and Lowercase A-z
- Numbers, fractions
- Punctuation and symbols
- Alternates for Uppercase
- Alternates for Lowercase, also ampersand
23. March – Elegant Serif Font
Say hello to March, a modern and clean, display serif font. An elegant touch with smooth ligatures to inspire your audiences.
The design of this typeface will make your designs more beautiful and inspiring. This font will be suitable for any project, like branding, print template, logo and etc. The font also available in a rough version.
Included in this set:
- March Clean (.OTF, .TTF, .WOFF)
- March Rough (.OTF, .TTF, .WOFF)
- 66 Alternates
- PUA encoded
- Numerals and Punctuation (OpenType Standard)
24. Kristopher
Kristopher is an elegant serif font with contrast lines and balanced curves. A lot of stylish alternates will give you many useful variations for its use. Try to play with compositions of curves and alternate letters with the basic font.
This serif font may be conservative and classic, and also may be more playful and modern. It will be good for Theatre or Art posters and the same good for Modern music web-pictures or vinyl covers. Of course it also will be well for coffee shops, cafes, restaurants, magazine’s headers, signs or gift/postcards and weddings. Try to use it in your beauty or travel blogs, you will see how many options you will have with stylish Kristopher.
Included in this set:
- Kristopher font
25. Davoa – Elegant Stencil Typeface
Introducing Davoa, an elegant stencil typeface created for headlines, titles & names. The cool structure of this serif font will have a stunning effect for your brand.
The font is best used in combination with a stylish sans-serif typeface and it will look great on business cards, book or magazine covers, labels, product packaging and more! It comes with 2 flavors, Regular and Alt, with the Alt version featuring alternative versions for the uppercase H & A and lowercase f & t letters.
Davoa – Elegant Stencil Typeface
Included in this set:
- 2 Styles (Regular & Alt)
- Uppercase & Lowercase Letters
- .OTF & .TTF File Formats
- .EOT & .WOFF Files (Webfont File Formats)
Elegant Serif Fonts
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