Masinahikan SemiBold, by Chris Harvey, is a free old-style serif font with a literary, bookish tone. The letters mix a sturdy, dark color with softly bracketed serifs and rounded lowercase forms, so the overall feel is calm and rooted rather than sharp or ornamental.
That makes it a natural free font for book covers, cultural posters, editorial headings, museum graphics, and title cards where you want a page-born voice instead of a slick contemporary one. It also suits short pull quotes or opening words nicely, because the broad capitals and generous curves give even a brief line a settled, dignified presence.
Copyright (c) 2005 by Chris Harvey (languagegeek.com). All rights reserved. The Roman Orthography is from the FreeSerif font, Copyleft 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation.