- Heading
- Alegreya SC
- Body text
- Libertinus Sans
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, elegant
- The body font is made for reading
Alegreya SC
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Alegreya SC is a free font by Juan Pablo del Peral, HT Fonts, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 490 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 45% of the em and the capital height is 64%.
Alegreya SC is a serif font with Small Caps, designed by Juan Pablo del Peral for HT Fonts. It supports Latin and Cyrillic scripts, and it supports Kazakh, since it includes all the extra Cyrillic letters that Kazakh needs. The family has 10 styles across the weights 400 to 900 and contains 1569 glyphs. It is not a variable font, and it is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Juan Pablo del Peral, HT Fonts
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1569
Character and uses
- Mood
- elegant
- calm
- Design
- humanist
- high contrast
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Alegreya SC has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 490 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Igbo
- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
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- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Sicilian
- Uzbek(Cyrillic)
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
…and 379 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 1236
- x-height
- 45% of the em
- Capital height
- 64% of the em
- Version
- 2.003; ttfautohint (v1.6)
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Kerning
kern - Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic sets (5)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Alegreya+SC
- Designer’s page
- huertatipografica.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Alegreya SC font free to use?
Yes. Alegreya SC is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Alegreya SC support Cyrillic?
Yes, Alegreya SC includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Alegreya SC support?
Alegreya SC covers 490 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install Alegreya SC?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Alegreya SC?
Alegreya SC was created by Juan Pablo del Peral, HT Fonts.
What is Alegreya SC good for?
Judging by its design, Alegreya SC suits: magazines and editorial, body text, headings.
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- The body font is made for reading
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