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Crimson Text typeface specimen

Crimson Text

Crimson Text is an old-style serif developed with book typography in mind. Its literary direction makes it useful to test for substantial website copy. Look beyond the heading specimen and compare paragraph density, italics and the rhythm of punctuation.

Style
Serif
Designer / foundry
Sebastian Kosch ↗

Websites using Crimson Text

Crimson Text font pairings

Used together in our collection. Open the examples to see how each design combines them; font credits do not specify which font is used for headings or body text.

Montserrat + Crimson Text

The Web Designer Newsletter, a website using both typefaces Boo-Boos, a website using both typefaces

Lato + Crimson Text

Aldo Aimo, a website using both typefaces

Open Sans + Crimson Text

Alexisonfire, a website using both typefaces

Source Sans + Crimson Text

Zak Elyazgi, a website using both typefaces

Gotham + Crimson Text

Boo-Boos, a website using both typefaces

Raleway + Crimson Text

Wedding Drone New York, a website using both typefaces

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