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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 Family | Crimson Pro ExtraLight |
| Style | Italic |
| Full Name | Crimson Pro ExtraLight Italic |
| Version | 1.002 |
| Weight | 200 (ExtraLight) |
| Glyph Count | 826 glyphs |
| PostScript Name | CrimsonPro-ExtraLightItalic |
| Designer | Jacques Le Bailly |
| Format | TTF (TrueType) |
| File Size | 219.4 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
- 1Download the Crimson Pro ExtraLight font file (.ttf or .otf).
- 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
- 3Right-click the font file.
- 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
- 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
Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team Β· Updated October 2026
License: Free for personal use
















