Instrument Serif

A delicate transitional serif with a long italic — the editorial moment in two clicks.

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Size72 px

Weight400 (fixed)

Leading1.15

Tracking0.000 em

Italic

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Weights

Aa400

Italic

The italic does the warmth.

Body — 18 px in the face

Instrument is a free transitional serif by Rodrigo Fuenzalida via Instrument. High-contrast, narrow waist, long stretched italic. Designed for display at editorial sizes — the kind of italic you set a chapter opener or a magazine pull-quote in. The lab uses it for the italic flourishes in studio, bureau, and gazette.

Glyphs

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

0123456789.,;:!?@#$&*()«»“”—

Pairs with

Instrument Serif

paired with IBM Plex Mono — running text would set comfortably at this size, mid-size for captions or short paragraphs sitting next to the display family above.

Instrument Serif

paired with Inter Tight — running text would set comfortably at this size, mid-size for captions or short paragraphs sitting next to the display family above.

Instrument Serif

paired with Source Serif 4 — running text would set comfortably at this size, mid-size for captions or short paragraphs sitting next to the display family above.

FAMILY: Instrument Serif
FOUNDRY: Rodrigo Fuenzalida (Instrument)
WEIGHTS: 400
STYLES: normal, italic
LICENSE: SIL OFL 1.1
TAGS: serif · display · italic · editorial
LINKS: Google Fonts ↗

Embedcss

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Instrument+Serif:ital@0;1&display=swap');