DM Serif Text

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

The text-size sibling of DM Serif Display, and a useful demonstration of what an optical size is. The drawing is the same, but the hairlines are thicker, the spacing looser and the letters slightly wider, so it survives at sizes where the display cut would break up. It is still a heavy, dark face — best for subheadings, standfirsts and short passages rather than a whole article.

See DM Serif Text in a paragraphCompare with DM Serif Display and Martel

DM Serif Text at a glance

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 ladder

96

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

64

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

40

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

24

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

16

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

12

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Specification

Designer
Colophon Foundry, Frank Grießhammer
Foundry
Colophon Foundry
Released
2019
Category
Serif
License
OFL-1.1
Commercial use
Allowed
Good for
Subheadings, Pull quotes, Short body text, Editorial
Weights
400
Styles
Normal, Italic
Variable
No
Glyphs
355
Languages
Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe
Download size
82 KB
Source
github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/dmseriftext

DM Serif Text 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

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
  • Y
  • Z

Lowercase

  • a
  • b
  • c
  • d
  • e
  • f
  • g
  • h
  • i
  • j
  • k
  • l
  • m
  • n
  • o
  • p
  • q
  • r
  • s
  • t
  • u
  • v
  • w
  • x
  • y
  • z

Numerals

  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9

Punctuation & symbols

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

Latin Extended153

Western European

  • À
  • Á
  • Â
  • Ã
  • Ä
  • Å
  • Æ
  • Ç
  • È
  • É
  • Ê
  • Ë
  • Ì
  • Í
  • Î
  • Ï
  • Ð
  • Ñ
  • Ò
  • Ó
  • Ô
  • Õ
  • Ö
  • Ø
  • Ù
  • Ú
  • Û
  • Ü
  • Ý
  • Þ
  • ß
  • à
  • á
  • â
  • ã
  • ä
  • å
  • æ
  • ç
  • è
  • é
  • ê
  • ë
  • ì
  • í
  • î
  • ï
  • ð
  • ñ
  • ò
  • ó
  • ô
  • õ
  • ö
  • ø
  • ù
  • ú
  • û
  • ü
  • ý
  • þ
  • ÿ

Central and Eastern European

  • Ā
  • ā
  • Ă
  • ă
  • Ą
  • ą
  • Ć
  • ć
  • Č
  • č
  • Ď
  • ď
  • Đ
  • đ
  • Ē
  • ē
  • Ė
  • ė
  • Ę
  • ę
  • Ě
  • ě
  • Ğ
  • ğ
  • Ģ
  • ģ
  • Ī
  • ī
  • Į
  • į
  • İ
  • ı
  • Ķ
  • ķ
  • Ĺ
  • ĺ
  • Ļ
  • ļ
  • Ľ
  • ľ
  • Ŀ
  • ŀ
  • Ł
  • ł
  • Ń
  • ń
  • Ņ
  • ņ
  • Ň
  • ň
  • Ō
  • ō
  • Ő
  • ő
  • Œ
  • œ
  • Ŕ
  • ŕ
  • Ŗ
  • ŗ
  • Ř
  • ř
  • Ś
  • ś
  • Ş
  • ş
  • Š
  • š
  • Ţ
  • ţ
  • Ť
  • ť
  • Ū
  • ū
  • Ů
  • ů
  • Ű
  • ű
  • Ų
  • ų
  • Ÿ
  • Ź
  • ź
  • Ż
  • ż
  • Ž
  • ž

Romanian and other

  • Ș
  • ș
  • Ț
  • ț

Türkçe14

  • Ç
  • ç
  • Ğ
  • ğ
  • I
  • ı
  • İ
  • i
  • Ö
  • ö
  • Ş
  • ş
  • Ü
  • ü

Use DM Serif Text 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-text.woff2, the same one the WOFF2 button above gives you.

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

body {
  font-family: 'DM Serif Text', 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-text.css">

Then use it in your CSS:

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

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

Questions

Is DM Serif Text free for commercial use?
Yes. DM Serif Text 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 Text in a logo?
Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in DM Serif Text 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 Text?
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 Text support Turkish?
Yes. DM Serif Text 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 Text support?
DM Serif Text 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 Text as WOFF2?
From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is dm-serif-text.woff2, and it is about 30 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 Text 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

Designed by Colophon Foundry, Frank Grießhammer

Copyright 2014 - 2017 Adobe Systems Incorporated (http://www.adobe.com/), with Reserved Font Name \'Source\'. Copyright 2019 Google LLC.

  • 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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Cite this page

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

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