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serifStaticOFL

Instrument Serif

Condensed, high-contrast display serif with a classical, elegant tone.

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Character set

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

0123456789

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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=Instrument+Serif&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
Use Instrument Serif in CSS
.instrument-serif {
  font-family: "Instrument Serif", serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}

Fontsource

Install from npm
npm install @fontsource/instrument-serif
Import once in your app entry
// Loads weight 400
import "@fontsource/instrument-serif";
Use in CSS
body {
  font-family: "Instrument Serif", 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: "Instrument Serif";
  src: url("/fonts/instrument-serif.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-display: swap;
}

Details

Designer
Rodrigo Fuenzalida
Foundry
Instrument
Licence
OFL
Format
Static