- Heading
- Fira Sans Extra Condensed
- Body text
- PT Serif Caption
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like, serious
- The heading font is made for headings
PT Serif Caption
About the font
PT Serif Caption is a free font by ParaType, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 392 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 53% of the em and the capital height is 70%.
PT Serif Caption is a serif font in the serif category, released by ParaType under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use. The font contains 719 glyphs and supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts, including all the extra Cyrillic letters needed for Kazakh. It comes in 2 styles, both at weight 400. It was designed for small point sizes and to work together with PT Sans.
Author
ParaType
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
719
Character and uses
- Mood
- serious
- business-like
- Design
- humanist
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
PT Serif Caption has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 392 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Romanian
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
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- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Tatar
- Slovenian
- Bashkir
- Chuvash
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Macedonian
- Kongo
- Makonde
- Gheg Albanian
- Sena
…and 284 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 717
- x-height
- 53% of the em
- Capital height
- 70% of the em
- Version
- 1.000W OFL
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Kerning
kern - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Ordinals
ordn
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/PT+Serif+Caption
- Designer’s page
- paratype.com/help/designers
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the PT Serif Caption font free to use?
Yes. PT Serif Caption is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does PT Serif Caption support Cyrillic?
Yes, PT Serif Caption includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does PT Serif Caption support?
PT Serif Caption covers 392 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install PT Serif Caption?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created PT Serif Caption?
PT Serif Caption was created by ParaType.
What is PT Serif Caption good for?
Judging by its design, PT Serif Caption suits: body text, magazines and editorial, headings.
Pairs well with PT Serif Caption
More pairs and your own text- Heading
- Gothic A1
- Body text
- PT Serif Caption
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: business-like, serious
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