[3] The typeface is inspired by the forms of Pierre Simon Fournier and is a complementary design to the Source Sans family.

[7] The first version, named "Source Serif Pro", was released in 2014.

Version 2.0 was released in 2017 and introduced support for more Latin characters, Cyrillic, and Greek.

[10] In 2021, a new release added optical sizes; the name "Pro" was dropped at this point.

[6] Media related to Source Serif Pro at Wikimedia Commons