Plain Squashed

Plain Squashed by GemFonts is a free italic serif font with a soft old-style manner and a slightly pressed, elongated flow. The letters lean with a calm, literary rhythm, pairing fine hairlines and broad curves so the alphabet feels elegant without turning brittle or ornate.

It fits book jackets, poetry titles, editorial mastheads, period-inspired branding, and film title cards where you want a cultured voice with a little motion in it. As a free font, it also makes sense for short pull quotes, chapter openers, and monograms, because those slanted serifs and roomy curves give brief lines a distinctly printed, page-born character.