Crimson Pro ExtraLight by Jacques Le Bailly β€” Serif Font β€” preview 11 / 3
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About Crimson Pro ExtraLight Font

Crimson Pro ExtraLight is an elegant italic serif typeface designed by Jacques Le Bailly from Baron von Fonthausen. The typeface features a distinctly delicate, refined stroke weight that brings understated sophistication to any composition requiring restrained typographic grace. With 826 glyphs and comprehensive support for 340+ Latin-based languages, it accommodates design projects across diverse international markets and creative regions.

This italic style excels in wedding invitation suites, where its thin letterforms naturally convey elegance, romance, and understated formality. Book designers and publishers find it particularly ideal for chapter headings, opening lines, and section dividers, creating visual interest while establishing clear hierarchy without overwhelming accompanying body copy. Editorial designers use it effectively for magazine feature titles, article introductions, and pull quotes, where its lighter weight draws attention while maintaining sophisticated restraint throughout layouts. Fine art publishers, galleries, and literary journals find the typeface particularly suited to posters, catalogs, and cover applications where restrained typography communicates cultural refinement and artistic intention.

The font is free for personal use only, with commercial licensing available directly from the designer for professional and business applications. Crimson Pro ExtraLight works best for editorial projects, high-end publishing, and artistic design work that prioritizes refined aesthetics and sophisticated typographic expression.

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Ultra-light, Classic, Refined, Serif
Use Case
Editorial, Print
Ideal For
book covers, long-form text, and traditional branding
Pairs With
a clean sans-serif for captions

Crimson Pro ExtraLight Specifications

Font FamilyCrimson Pro ExtraLight
StyleItalic
Full NameCrimson Pro ExtraLight Italic
Version1.002
Weight200 (ExtraLight)
Glyph Count826 glyphs
PostScript NameCrimsonPro-ExtraLightItalic
DesignerJacques Le Bailly
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size219.4 KB

OpenType Features

Crimson Pro ExtraLight ships with 12 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Case-sensitive forms
  • Discretionary ligatures
  • Fractions
  • Standard ligatures
  • Lining figures
  • Old-style figures
  • Ordinals
  • Proportional figures
  • Scientific inferiors
  • Subscripts
  • Superscripts
  • Tabular figures
  • Variable font Β· axes: wght

Languages Supported

Crimson Pro ExtraLight supports 340 languages.

How to Install Crimson Pro ExtraLight Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Crimson Pro ExtraLight font file (.ttf or .otf).
  2. 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
  3. 3Right-click the font file.
  4. 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
  5. 5Crimson Pro ExtraLight is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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Crimson Pro ExtraLight Font is a versatile serif font that works for both headings and body text. Pair it with a contrasting sans-serif or slab serif font to add visual interest and a clear distinction between titles and body copy.

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Crimson Pro ExtraLight Font

by Jacques Le Bailly

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team Β· Updated October 2026

Free for personal use
Not free for commercial use

License: Free for personal use

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