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anotherSerif

By Xiaoyuan Gao

2026

2 subfamilies (Standard, Ornament)

6 styles

There are so many serif typefaces—today Xiaoyuan is adding one more to the pile: anotherSerif. This is her first attempt at a serif typeface—well, mostly serif. Most glyphs follow serif conventions, but some don't.

anotherSerif is a typeface that explores irregularity and inconsistency, qualities often overlooked or under appreciated. Each glyph has its own size, sometimes breaking all conventions: for example, the uppercase P is smaller than lowercase p. As a dot matrix-based typeface, this irregularity surprisingly helps readability at small sizes.

The challenge was finding the right rhythm within this chaos. There were technical constraints when bitmap fonts were introduced. Now we don't have those constraints anymore—wouldn't it be nice to do something weird? After commonSans, it felt natural to make anotherSerif. :)

anotherSerif

(3 styles)

anotherSerif notLight

anotherSerif notRegular

anotherSerif notBold

anotherSerif Ornament

(3 styles)

anotherSerif Arlequin

anotherSerif Box

anotherSerif CRT

bezier curve
anotherSerif notRegular
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height, and is expressed with two numbers separated by a colon, such as 16:9, sixteen-to-nine. For the x:y aspect ratio, the image is x units wide and y units high. Common aspect ratios are 1.85:1 and 2.39:1 in cinematography, 4:3 and 16:9 in television photography, and 3:2 in still photography. The common film aspect ratios used in cinemas are 1.85:1 and 2.39:1. Two common videographic aspect ratios are 4:3 (1.3:1), the universal video format of the 20th century, and 16:9 (1.7:1), universal for high-definition television and European digital television. Other cinema and video aspect ratios exist, but are used infrequently. In still camera photography, the most common aspect ratios are 4:3, 3:2, and more recently found in consumer cameras, 16:9. Other aspect ratios, such as 5:3, 5:4, and 1:1 (square format), are used in photography as well, particularly in medium format and large format. With television, DVD and Blu-ray Disc, converting formats of unequal ratios is achieved by enlarging the original image to fill the receiving format’s display area and cutting off any excess picture information (zooming and cropping), by adding horizontal mattes (letterboxing) or vertical mattes (pillarboxing) to retain the original format’s aspect ratio, by stretching (hence distorting) the image to fill the receiving format’s ratio, or by scaling by different factors in both directions, possibly scaling by a different factor in the center and at the edges (as in Wide Zoom mode). In motion picture formats, the physical size of the film area between the sprocket perforations determines the image’s size. The universal standard (established by William Dickson and Thomas Edison in 1892) is a frame that is four perforations high. The film itself is 35 mm wide (1.38 in), but the area …
anotherSerif notRegular
🌀🌱🎵🐤👀👉👍💌💤💥💫🔃🔄🔗😊😎😏😒😕😖😗😶😺🙂🙃🙄🚫🛑☃↑↗→↘↓↙←↖↔↕↩↪
anotherSerif notRegular
Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure—a ghostly couple. "Here we left it," she said. And he added, "Oh, but here too!" "It's upstairs," she murmured. "And in the garden," he whispered. "Quietly," they said, "or we shall wake them."
anotherSerif notLight
Bumpy’s Message
anotherSerif notBold
ironically spicy
anotherSerif notLight
two slices of BUTTERED bread
anotherSerif notBold
ARLEQUIN or Harley Quinn?
anotherSerif Ornament Arlequin
The Classic
anotherSerif Ornament Box
Cathodique
anotherSerif Ornament CRT
I Saw the TV Glow
anotherSerif Ornament CRT
Summer Night Noise
anotherSerif Ornament Box
THE REBELLION OF PEANUT BUTTER
anotherSerif Ornament Arlequin
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About anotherSerif's designer

Xiaoyuan Gao (She/Her) is a Rotterdam-based freelance graphic designer, image-maker, type designer and the initiator of “notyourtypefoundry”. While experimenting with unconventional approaches to type design and typesetting, she sees type design as a tool making process. 

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