Is DM Serif Display free for commercial use?

Yes. DM Serif Display is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.

Can I use DM Serif Display in a logo?

Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in DM Serif Display belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Colophon Foundry, Frank Grießhammer. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.

How do I install DM Serif Display?

Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.

Does DM Serif Display support Turkish?

Yes. DM Serif Display includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.

What languages does DM Serif Display support?

DM Serif Display covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 355 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

Where can I download DM Serif Display as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is dm-serif-display.woff2, and it is about 31 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.

DM Serif Display

Colophon Foundry, Frank Grießhammer · Colophon Foundry · 2019 · OFL-1.1

A high-contrast serif for large sizes, adapted by Colophon from Source Serif and pushed towards drama: sharp hairlines, heavy stems and a small lowercase that lets the capitals dominate. It has a true italic with real pen movement in it, which is where much of its charm lives. Set it at thirty pixels and above; for smaller text the same design exists as DM Serif Text.

See DM Serif Display in a paragraph Compare with DM Serif Text and Gilda Display

Download DM Serif Display

Download DM Serif Display · 83 KB · 2 files

2 separate files · 1 weight + italic

One file per style, the traditional way. Install the ones you need. Works everywhere, including older versions of Word, Photoshop and Canva.

The license file is inside the zip.

WOFF2 · 31 KB · 1 file

For putting DM Serif Display on a website. The complete font, repacked — same glyphs, same spacing, around 60% smaller than the .ttf, and read by every current browser.

Other formats

Made in your browser from the WOFF2 above — nothing is uploaded. The .ttf is the same font, though not the same bytes as the original: the exact file Google published is in the zip. DM Serif Display is not offered as .otf because that would mean redrawing every outline rather than repacking the file.

Commercial use: Yes · OFL 1.1
In a logo: Yes
On a website: Yes · WOFF2 here
Türkçe (ı İ ğ ş): Yes
Variable: No · 1 weight
Italic: Yes

Alphabets

Style

Click the text above to set it in your own words.

Size — 64px

Size ladder

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Specification

Designer: Colophon Foundry, Frank Grießhammer
Foundry: Colophon Foundry
Released: 2019
Category: Serif
License: OFL-1.1
Commercial use: Allowed
Good for: Headlines, Invitations, Editorial, Branding
Weights: 400
Styles: Normal, Italic
Variable: No
Glyphs: 355
Languages: Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe
Download size: 83 KB
Source: github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/dmserifdisplay

DM Serif Display character map

333 characters in the complete font. Grouped by the alphabets it covers — every cell is a character the file really contains.

Latin110

Uppercase

Lowercase

Numerals

Punctuation & symbols

.
,
:
;
!
?
'
"
‘
’
“
”
(
)
[
]
{
}
/
\
|
-
–
—
_
@
#
$
%
&
*
+
=
<
>
~
^
`
€
£
¥
©
®
°
§
†
•
…

Latin Extended153

Western European

Central and Eastern European

Romanian and other

Türkçe14

Use DM Serif Display on the web

Self-hosted

You serve the file yourself. Nothing depends on this site staying up, and you get the whole character set — all Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe. The file is dm-serif-display.woff2, the same one the WOFF2 button above gives you.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'DM Serif Display';
  /* Take the WOFF2 button above, put dm-serif-display.woff2 wherever
     you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
  src: url('/fonts/dm-serif-display.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: 'DM Serif Display', serif;
}

Hosted by us

One line, nothing to upload. Put this in your <head>:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/dm-serif-display.css">

Then use it in your CSS:

body {
  font-family: 'DM Serif Display', serif;
}

One thing to know: the file we host is cut down to Latin characters so pages load quickly. DM Serif Display also covers Türkçe, and for those you need the download and the self-hosted route.

Questions

Is DM Serif Display free for commercial use?: Yes. DM Serif Display is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
Can I use DM Serif Display in a logo?: Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in DM Serif Display belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Colophon Foundry, Frank Grießhammer. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
How do I install DM Serif Display?: Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.
Does DM Serif Display support Turkish?: Yes. DM Serif Display includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
What languages does DM Serif Display support?: DM Serif Display covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 355 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
Where can I download DM Serif Display as WOFF2?: From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is dm-serif-display.woff2, and it is about 31 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.

DM Serif Display license

OFL-1.1

You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.

Commercial use allowed

Taken unmodified from google/fonts
The licence file is inside every zip — the site will not publish a download without one
This page’s data last changed on 11 September 2026

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Pairs well with DM Serif Display

DM Mono
The same family’s monospace, drawn to sit beside DM Serif Display.
See the two side by side →
DM Sans
The same family’s sans, drawn to sit beside DM Serif Display.
See the two side by side →
Archivo
A sans to set the paragraphs under DM Serif Display.
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Cite this page

DM Serif Display font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/dm-serif-display (updated 2026-09-11)

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