Darby Serif Collection
Commercial Type · Paul Barnes
A contemporary British transitional serif by Paul Barnes built on the Darby skeleton, with Display and Text optical sizes for editorial and news work.
About
A serif by Paul Barnes with Dan Milne, drawn on the same skeleton as Darby Sans and split into a Display family for headlines and a Text family for continuous reading. Its mixture of roundness and sharpness pulls from the lettering and typefaces of the British Enlightenment, while the proportions follow the functional newsfaces of the 20th century, giving headline and text economy without losing legibility under difficult printing conditions. Suits news, editorial, graphic and corporate design across digital and print.
Classification
Commercial Type describe Darby Serif as a contemporary serif built on the same skeleton as Darby Sans, with proportions drawn from 20th-century news typefaces and roots in British Enlightenment lettering. Split into Display and Text optical sizes.