Elegant and friendly serif with experimental alternate glyphs
About Residenz Serif
Residenz Serif is the older sibling of Residenz Grotesk and follows the same principle: A neutral, but friendly serif family for a wide range of uses — and thanks to various alternates, its character can be individually adapted.
Because in addition to the usual letter shapes, there is a complete alternative set of letters, inspired by handwritten shapes and graffiti. These can be activated manually or in the desired frequency using predefined stylistic sets. The friendly, elegant style can thus be adapted to an experimental, brutalist appearance.
In addition to 6 different weights for the most common uses, you can also choose from 3 optical sizes. These differ in shape, contrast and spacing — so you can use them on huge posters as well as for smaller texts. In addition, expect an extensive character set for almost all Latin languages and helpful opentype features. And if you really want to take it to the extreme, pair it with Residenz Grotesk for maximum contrast!
- ▸Released in 2021
- ▸Contemporary Serif
- ▸6 weights in 3 optical sizes
- ▸Complete Set of alternate Letterforms
- ▸980 Glyphs
Please note that this preview font only includes basic upper- and lowercase letters as well as standard figures. No kerning and OpenType features are included. Please see reference images or the specimen PDF for full functionality.
OpenType-Features
The core feature of Residenz Serif are the different stylistic presets, mixing in the alternate letters in different frequencies. But of course the usual OpenType features like ligatures, case sensitive forms and various forms of figures are not missing.
- ▸12 Stylistic Sets
- ▸Standard Ligatures
- ▸Discretionary Ligatures
- ▸Contextual Alternates
- ▸Case sensitive Forms
- ▸Oldstyle and Tabular Figures
- ▸Superior and Inferior Figures
- ▸Dynamic Fractions
- ▸Slashed Zero
Language Support
Thanks to the coverage of the Latin-Extended-A Unicode range, Residenz Serif supports most modern Latin languages. Actually, containing some additional accented glyphs, you can set text in 215 languages. If you still think your language isn't supported, you can look up the full list below or in the specimen.
- Complete list of supported languages
Abenaki • Afaan Oromo • Afar • Afrikaans • Albanian • Alsatian • Amis • Anuta • Aragonese • Aranese • Aromanian • Arrernte • Arvanitic (Latin) • Asturian • Atayal • Aymara • Bashkir (Latin) • Basque • Belarusian (Latin) • Bemba • Bikol • Bislama • Bosnian • Breton • Cape Verdean Creole • Catalan • Cebuano • Chamorro • Chavacano • Chichewa • Chickasaw • Cimbrian • Cofán • Cornish • Corsican • Creek • Crimean Tatar (Latin) • Croatian • Czech • Danish • Dawan • Delaware • Dholuo • Drehu • Dutch • English • Esperanto • Estonian • Faroese • Fijian • Filipino • Finnish • Folkspraak • French • Frisian • Friulian • Gagauz (Latin) • Galician • Ganda • Genoese • German • Gikuyu • Gooniyandi • Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) • Guadeloupean Creole • Gwich’in • Haitian Creole • Hän • Hawaiian • Hiligaynon • Hopi • Hotcąk (Latin) • Hungarian • Icelandic • Ido • Igbo • Ilocano • Indonesian • Interglossa • Interlingua • Irish • Istro-Romanian • Italian • Jamaican • Javanese (Latin) • Jèrriais • Kaingang • Kala Lagaw Ya • Kapampangan (Latin) • Kaqchikel • Karakalpak (Latin) • Karelian (Latin) • Kashubian • Kikongo • Kinyarwanda • Kiribati • Kirundi • Klingon • Kurdish (Latin) • Ladin • Latin • Latino sine Flexione • Latvian • Lithuanian • Lojban • Lombard • Low Saxon • Luxembourgish • Maasai • Makhuwa • Malay • Maltese • Manx • Māori • Marquesan • Megleno-Romanian • Meriam Mir • Mirandese • Mohawk • Moldovan • Montagnais • Montenegrin • Murrinh-Patha • Nagamese Creole • Nahuatl • Ndebele • Neapolitan • Ngiyambaa • Niuean • Noongar • Norwegian • Novial • Occidental • Occitan • Onĕipŏt • Oshiwambo • Ossetian (Latin) • Palauan • Papiamento • Piedmontese • Polish • Portuguese • Potawatomi • Q’eqchi’ • Quechua • Rarotongan • Romanian • Romansh • Rotokas • Sami (Inari Sami) • Sami (Lule Sami) • Sami (Northern Sami) • Sami (Southern Sami) • Samoan • Sango • Saramaccan • Sardinian • Scottish Gaelic • Serbian (Latin) • Seri • Seychellois Creole • Shawnee • Shona • Sicilian • Silesian • Slovak • Slovenian • Slovio (Latin) • Somali • Sorbian (Lower Sorbian) • Sorbian (Upper Sorbian) • Sotho (Northern) • Sotho (Southern) • Spanish • Sranan • Sundanese (Latin) • Swahili • Swazi • Swedish • Tagalog • Tahitian • Tetum • Tok Pisin • Tokelauan • Tongan • Tshiluba • Tsonga • Tswana • Tumbuka • Turkish • Turkmen (Latin) • Tuvaluan • Tzotzil • Uzbek (Latin) • Venetian • Vepsian • Volapük • Võro • Wallisian • Walloon • Waray-Waray • Warlpiri • Wayuu • Welsh • Wik-Mungkan • Wiradjuri • Wolof • Xavante • Xhosa • Yapese • Yindjibarndi • Zapotec • Zazaki • Zulu • Zuni
Glyph Set
Residenz Serif comes with 980 glyphs, covering the Latin Extended-A Unicode Range, a complete set of alternate letters and punctuation and some helpful ligatures.
To get an overview of the full glyph set, all styles, OpenType-Features and text samples you can download the specimen below.
Specimen & Trials
To get a complete overview of all features, the glyph set and range of cuts you can download the specimen. It is designed to work not only for information on screen, but to be printed out to get an impression of appearence in different sizes on paper.
You can also go straight to testing the typefaces in your favorite layout program: Our test fonts package can be downloaded for free and contains all of our previously published typefaces!