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Young Serif
One weight, and that weight is heavy. Young Serif is an old style built at a size where the serifs become slabs and the counters close down to slots, which is a register the classical models it names — Plantin and ITC Italian Old Style — never worked in. The soft part is in the lowercase: the b and the f finish on rounded curves rather than sharp exits, and that single decision is what stops the whole thing reading as aggressive. No italic, no axis, no light end.
See Young Serif in a paragraphCompare with Alice and Bellefair
Young 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
- No
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
- Bastien Sozeau
- Released
- 2023
- Category
- Serif
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Headlines, Editorial display, Book covers, Branding
- Weights
- 400
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 644
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe
- Download size
- 52 KB
Young Serif character map
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 Extended194
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
- Ĉ
- ĉ
- Ċ
- ċ
- Č
- č
- Ď
- ď
- Đ
- đ
- Ē
- ē
- Ĕ
- ĕ
- Ė
- ė
- Ę
- ę
- Ě
- ě
- Ĝ
- ĝ
- Ğ
- ğ
- Ġ
- ġ
- Ģ
- ģ
- Ĥ
- ĥ
- Ħ
- ħ
- Ĩ
- ĩ
- Ī
- ī
- Ĭ
- ĭ
- Į
- į
- İ
- ı
- IJ
- ij
- Ĵ
- ĵ
- Ķ
- ķ
- ĸ
- Ĺ
- ĺ
- Ļ
- ļ
- Ľ
- ľ
- Ŀ
- ŀ
- Ł
- ł
- Ń
- ń
- Ņ
- ņ
- Ň
- ň
- ʼn
- Ŋ
- ŋ
- Ō
- ō
- Ŏ
- ŏ
- Ő
- ő
- Œ
- œ
- Ŕ
- ŕ
- Ŗ
- ŗ
- Ř
- ř
- Ś
- ś
- Ŝ
- ŝ
- Ş
- ş
- Š
- š
- Ţ
- ţ
- Ť
- ť
- Ŧ
- ŧ
- Ũ
- ũ
- 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
- ƒ
Türkçe14
- Ç
- ç
- Ğ
- ğ
- I
- ı
- İ
- i
- Ö
- ö
- Ş
- ş
- Ü
- ü
Use Young Serif on the web
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Young Serif';
/* Take the WOFF2 button above, put young-serif.woff2 wherever
you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
src: url('/fonts/young-serif.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Young Serif', serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/young-serif.css">body {
font-family: 'Young Serif', serif;
}Questions
- Is Young Serif free for commercial use?
- Yes. Young 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 Young Serif in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Young 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 Bastien Sozeau. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Young Serif?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file 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 Young Serif support Turkish?
- Yes. Young 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 Young Serif support?
- Young Serif covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 644 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Young Serif?
- Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 32 KB against 39 KB for the complete file, 19% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.
- Where can I download Young Serif as WOFF2?
- From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is young-serif.woff2, and it is about 39 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.
Young 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 Young Serif
- Archivo
A sans to set the paragraphs under Young Serif.
See the two side by side - Catamaran
A sans to set the paragraphs under Young Serif.
See the two side by side
Cite this page
Young Serif font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/young-serif (updated 2026-09-04)