Instrument Serif
Narrow, sharp and drawn for one job: a headline set large. The contrast is severe and the serifs are cut fine enough that this is unusable below about thirty pixels, which is not a fault but a decision — its own documentation says display sizes and means it. It is the serif companion to Instrument Sans, already here, and the two share a brand rather than a skeleton. Two files, roman and italic, and no weight axis at all.
See Instrument Serif in a paragraphCompare with Gilda Display and Gloock
Instrument Serif at a glance
- Commercial use
- Yes · OFL 1.1
- On a website
- Yes · WOFF2 here
- Variable
- No · 1 weight
- In a logo
- Yes
- Türkçe (ı İ ğ ş)
- Yes
- Italic
- Yes
Alphabets
Style
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
- Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Jordan Egstad
- Released
- 2022
- Category
- Serif
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Headlines, Editorial display, Titles, Branding
- Weights
- 400
- Styles
- Normal, Italic
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 377
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe
- Download size
- 74 KB
Instrument Serif character map
Latin109
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 Extended165
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
- Ċ
- ċ
- Č
- č
- Ď
- ď
- Đ
- đ
- Ē
- ē
- Ė
- ė
- Ę
- ę
- Ě
- ě
- Ğ
- ğ
- Ġ
- ġ
- Ģ
- ģ
- Ħ
- ħ
- Ī
- ī
- Į
- į
- İ
- ı
- IJ
- ij
- Ķ
- ķ
- Ĺ
- ĺ
- Ļ
- ļ
- Ľ
- ľ
- Ł
- ł
- Ń
- ń
- Ņ
- ņ
- Ň
- ň
- Ŋ
- ŋ
- Ō
- ō
- Ő
- ő
- Œ
- œ
- Ŕ
- ŕ
- Ŗ
- ŗ
- Ř
- ř
- Ś
- ś
- Ş
- ş
- Š
- š
- Ť
- ť
- Ū
- ū
- Ŭ
- ŭ
- Ů
- ů
- Ű
- ű
- Ų
- ų
- Ŵ
- ŵ
- Ŷ
- ŷ
- 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 Instrument Serif on the web
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Instrument Serif';
/* Take the WOFF2 button above, put instrument-serif.woff2 wherever
you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
src: url('/fonts/instrument-serif.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Instrument Serif', serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/instrument-serif.css">body {
font-family: 'Instrument Serif', serif;
}Questions
- Is Instrument Serif free for commercial use?
- Yes. Instrument Serif 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 Instrument Serif in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Instrument Serif belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Jordan Egstad. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Instrument Serif?
- 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 Instrument Serif support Turkish?
- Yes. Instrument Serif 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 Instrument Serif support?
- Instrument Serif covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 377 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- Where can I download Instrument Serif as WOFF2?
- From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is instrument-serif.woff2, and it is about 27 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.
Instrument Serif 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 4 September 2026
Pairs well with Instrument Serif
- Instrument Sans
The same family’s sans, drawn to sit beside Instrument Serif.
See the two side by side - Archivo
A sans to set the paragraphs under Instrument Serif.
See the two side by side
Cite this page
Instrument Serif font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/instrument-serif (updated 2026-09-04)