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About Crimson Pro
Crimson Pro is a serif typeface family: Contemporary, clear, classic and rounded/open. Something for a college textbook, editorial websites and any reading experience with book-length texts
It contributes to the tradition of beautiful Garamond-inspired typefaces, often called “Garalde” or “Old Style,” and has 8 named weights, in Roman and Italic, and is available as a Variable Font with a Weight axis.
The first Crimson design was initiated by Sebastian Kosch in 2009, and he later completely redrew a new version called Crimson Prime.
Google commissioned Jacques Le Bailly to review both typefaces, and develop Crimson Pro as a new design that synthesises both designs into a final authoritative family, first released in January 2019.
All decisions were made to enable better readability for longer texts and the ability to make good and diverse typography.
The Crimson Pro project is led by Jacques Le Bailly, a type designer based in Den Haag, Netherlands.
To contribute, see github.com/Fonthausen/CrimsonPro
License & usage
Crimson Pro is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it for free in personal and commercial projects: logos, websites, apps, videos, print and products. You may embed it and modify it; the font files themselves may not be sold on their own.
To use it on a website, add the files with @font-face and set font-family: 'Crimson Pro', serif;
View the full license text (also included in the ZIP).
