Crimson (typeface)

Crimson is a serif typeface released under the Open Font License. It is designed by Sebastian Kosch, with inputs from other contributors.
Design
Crimson is inspired by typefaces such as Minion, Arno, Sabon, and Hoefler Text.
Releases
Crimson was first released as Crimson Text in 2010, with another optical size known as Crimson Display planned. Crimson Display was never completed.
Crimson is available on GitHub
Related Typefaces
Amiri
Amiri is an Arabic typeface designed by Khaled Hosny and released under the Open Font License. The Latin characters of Amiri are based on Crimson.
Amiri is available on Google Fonts and comes with Regular and Bold.
Cochineal
Cochineal is a fork of Crimson created by Michael Sharpe and is available as a TeX package.
Crimson Pro
Jacques Le Bailly redesigned Crimson and released it as another typeface known as Crimson Pro.
Crimson Pro and Crimson have many differences. For instance, the two typefaces have different x-heights; the brackets of Crimson Pro's serifs are angular (as opposed to the rounded brackets of Crimson's serifs); the uppercase "P" of Crimson Pro does not have a gap next to its vertical.
Crimson Pro comes with 8 weights (Extra-light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi-bold, Bold, Extra-bold, and Black). It also has variable font.
 
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