VIGIL SERIF
A free serif companion to Vigil, by Keno Vigil — https://www.vigilfont.com/serif


IN A HURRY?

  Select all 16 files in this folder whose names start with "VigilSerif-"
  and end in ".ttf". Double-click them. Click Install.

  That's it. Vigil Serif will be in Word, Canva, Keynote, Figma, Photoshop
  and everything else the next time you open them.


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1. INSTALLING ON A MAC
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  1. Unzip this folder if you haven't already — double-click the .zip.
  2. Select the 16 files starting with "VigilSerif-" and ending in ".ttf".
     (Click the first, hold Shift, click the last.)
  3. Double-click any of them. Font Book opens.
  4. Click "Install" (or "Install Font").
  5. Quit and reopen any app that was already running.


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2. INSTALLING ON WINDOWS
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  1. Unzip the folder (right-click, "Extract All").
  2. Select the 16 files starting with "VigilSerif-" and ending in ".ttf".
  3. Right-click the selection and choose "Install" (or "Install for all
     users", which needs an administrator).
  4. Restart any app that was already open.

  The static files are hinted, so they render cleanly at small sizes in
  Word and older Windows apps.


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3. WHAT'S IN THIS FOLDER
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  VigilSerif-*.ttf              16 styles, ready to install: ExtraLight,
                                Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold,
                                ExtraBold, Black, each with an italic.

  Variable font/                One file per style axis instead of eight:
                                "Vigil Serif Variable.ttf" and its italic,
                                weight 200–900 continuous. Use these in apps
                                that support variable fonts (Figma, Adobe
                                apps, Affinity, recent Office).

  Web fonts/                    The same faces as WOFF2 for websites: the 14
                                statics and the two variable files.

  OFL.txt                       The license (SIL Open Font License 1.1).
  FONTLOG.txt                   What changed, and the history it inherits
                                from Vollkorn.


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4. USING IT ON A WEBSITE
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  The quickest way is one line in your <head>, which also gives you Vigil:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.vigilfont.com/vigil.css">

  Then:

    font-family: "Vigil Serif", Georgia, serif;

  Self-hosting instead? Copy the two variable files from "Web fonts/" and:

    @font-face { font-family: "Vigil Serif";
                 src: url("VigilSerif-Variable.woff2") format("woff2");
                 font-weight: 200 900; }
    @font-face { font-family: "Vigil Serif";
                 src: url("VigilSerif-Variable-Italic.woff2") format("woff2");
                 font-weight: 200 900; font-style: italic; }

  Weight is a continuous axis, so font-weight: 437 is valid.


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5. PAIRING WITH VIGIL
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  Cap height, x-height, descender and line box match Vigil exactly, so the
  two sit on one baseline at one size with no adjustment. At the same
  nominal weight the serif reads heavier, because serifs add ink; the
  stem-matched pairing is serif 300 beside sans 400. A rule that works:
  content in the serif, interface in the sans.

  OpenType features: small caps (smcp), old-style figures (onum), lining
  figures (lnum, the default), tabular figures (tnum), fractions (frac),
  superscripts and subscripts (sups, subs), and the ligatures.


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6. LICENSE
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  SIL Open Font License 1.1. Use it anywhere, commercial or not, embed it,
  bundle it, modify it. The only things you cannot do are sell the font
  files by themselves or release a modified version under another license.
  No attribution is required in your work.

  Vigil Serif is derived from Vollkorn by Friedrich Althausen, which is
  also under the OFL; Vollkorn's copyright notice travels with these files,
  as the license asks. Vollkorn is not a reserved font name, so the rename
  is permitted.


Vigil Serif 1.000 — 18 September 2026
Keno Vigil, Cary, North Carolina — https://thinkkeno.com
