Crimson Pro

Reworked variable-weight redesign of Crimson Text; refined oldstyle text serif.

Font settings

Weight400

These settings in CSS

.crimson-pro {
  font-family: "Crimson Pro", serif;
}

Waterfall

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Character set

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

0123456789

!@#$%&*()[]{}<>,.;:'"?/—–-+=

Paragraph

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. It shapes how words are read, felt and remembered — from wayfinding on a station platform to the small print of a contract. Good type disappears into reading; great type gives a voice to the text.

Install

Google Fonts

Embed in the <head> of your HTML

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Crimson+Pro:wght@200..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Use Crimson Pro in CSS

/* <weight>: use a value from 200 to 900 */

.crimson-pro {
  font-family: "Crimson Pro", serif;
  font-weight: <weight>;
}

Fontsource

Install from npm

npm install @fontsource-variable/crimson-pro

Import once in your app entry

// Supports weights 200-900
import "@fontsource-variable/crimson-pro";

Use in CSS

body {
  font-family: "Crimson Pro Variable", serif;
}

Self-host

Google Fonts and Fontsource serve stripped builds — most OpenType features are removed. Self-hosting the original files is the only way to get the full feature set.

Download the font files from GitHub and serve them yourself:

Declare with @font-face

@font-face {
  font-family: "Crimson Pro";
  src: url("/fonts/crimson-pro.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-display: swap;
}

Details

Designer: Jacques Le Bailly (after Sebastian Kosch)
Foundry: Fonthausen
Licence: OFL
Format: Variable (wght)
Variable axes: wght