PT Serif
Pairingserif
CompareUse-case scenarios
Large Display
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Typography Scale
Heading 1 (48px)
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Heading 2 (36px)
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Heading 3 (24px)
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Body Text (16px)
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Good body type stays out of the way: even color, open counters, and spacing that holds up at 16 pixels on a phone or 12 on a dense dashboard.
Small Text (14px)
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Install Spectral
<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=Spectral:wght@200;300;400;500;600;700;800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Character Set
Uppercase
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Lowercase
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Numbers & Symbols
0123456789 !@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}|;':",./<>?
Works well with
Fonts that pair well with Spectral.
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Spectral
Description
Variable serif optimized for digital reading
Source
googleOpen Font License
Font weights
Use cases
Blogs & ContentDocumentation
Stats
Popularity 75/100
Used by Google Docs, Long-form reading
Performance: standard
npm · @fontsource/spectralCharacteristics
- Contrast
- medium
- Aperture
- medium
- x-Height
- medium
- Width
- normal
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Paid alternatives
Spectral is an open-source alternative to:
- Tiempos Text
- Lyon Text
- Sentinel