Crimson Text is a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful oldstyle typefaces.

Crimson Text is inspired by the fantastic work of people like Jan Tschichold, Robert Slimbach and Jonathan Hoefler. I hope that (with your help) Crimson Text will one day grow into a typographic workhorse for everyone.

Note: There has been confusion over "Crimson" vs. "Crimson Text", and here's why: I have taken to often calling the font "Crimson" myself (indolence and poor brand management, I know). The files on this website have been continuously improving, while freefont hosters are still offering old, crappy versions. Thus: call it whatever you like, and make sure you get the latest version. Sorry for creating such a mess. (tldr: There's only one font, but there are older and newer versions.)

I welcome every support with open arms! Here's how you can help.

Testing the font: A pair of unbiased eyes is the most helpful tool in type design. If you have any suggestions, please let me know — either by email or using SourceForge's bug tracker.

Letters: If you rock at FontForge and have some time to spare, get in touch. There're tons of things to work on.

Support: A friendly email showcasing your work with the font goes a long way. Or you can donate to the project; or to your favourite cause (and let me know you did!). Or simply spread the word — the more users and feedback, the greater the incentive to develop!

Here's my long-term roadmap for Crimson development:

• Polytonic Greek,
• Cyrillic,
• Vietnamese,
• IPA,
• and whatever other script you can help out with :)
• a Crimson Math font, with MATH table and XeTeX/unicode-math support, including
• optically scaled glyphs for equations
• lots of symbols;
• a "Crimson Titling" optical weight with
• engraved caps;
• more ornaments.

Crimson Text is published under the terms of SIL's Open Font License. That means:

• You may use it for whatever you want. Websites, theses, letters, books, ads, brands ...
• Don't claim you made it or own it.
• If you distribute the files somehow, make sure they remain free and retain the OFL notice. Don't sell them.

The rest of the website is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.