DM Serif Text
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
Uppercase
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Numerals
Symbols
Configuration
Select the weights and styles you want to include in your project.
Styles
Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/dm-serif-text2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "DM Serif Text", serif;
}Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style -->Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* Please select at least one weight and style */Background & Story
DM Serif Text is a lower-contrast counterpart to the high-contrast DM Serif Display. While the serifs remain delicate, the DM Serif Text family is a more robust variant of the Display sibling, intended for smaller sub-headings and text sizes.
DM Serif Text supports a Latin Extended glyph set, enabling typesetting for English and other Western European languages. It was designed by Colophon Foundry (UK), that started from the Latin portion of Adobe Source Serif 4, by Frank Grießhammer et al.
To contribute, see github.com/googlefonts/dm-fonts
Tags & Moods
Subsets
Install
pnpm add @fontsource/dm-serif-textDesigned by
Colophon Foundry
Links
License
OFL-1.1