Alegreya

Try Alegreya

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Alegreya Regular Italic
• Medium 500Alegreya Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Alegreya SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Alegreya Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Alegreya ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Alegreya Black Black Italic

Alegreya is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Alegreya

Alegreya is a serif typeface drawn for long reading, with a visible calligraphic influence: stems flare a little, serifs are wedge-shaped and slightly irregular, and curves shift in thickness as if made with a broad pen. The numerals in the specimen are oldstyle figures that rise and fall like lowercase letters. The family runs on one variable weight axis from 400 to 900, with six named weights (Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, Black) and an italic for each, 12 styles in all. Nothing lighter than Regular exists. Its 2,104 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese. The official description records two distinctions: selection at the Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño held in Madrid in 2010, and a place among the 53 typefaces named Fonts of the Decade in ATypI's Letter2 competition of 2011. Juan Pablo del Peral is the designer.

Where Alegreya works

Novels and long-form books

Alegreya was first intended for literature, and its uneven, pen-based rhythm is meant to carry a reader through many pages.

Essays and literary magazines

Oldstyle figures and a full italic at every weight handle dates, titles of works and emphasis inside running prose.

Chapter titles and covers

ExtraBold and Black, which the official description calls experimental for the genre, give a dark, expressive heading from the same family.

Scholarly texts with Greek or Cyrillic

Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese letters share the design, so quotations in those scripts match the surrounding text.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Alegreya

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Alegreya on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Alegreya";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Alegreya-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Alegreya";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Alegreya-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Alegreya", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Alegreya with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Alegreya:ital,wght@0,400..900;1,400..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Starts at Regular

The weight axis runs from 400 to 900. There is no Light or Thin.

Two variable files

The package contains one upright and one italic variable font, each covering all six weights.

Small caps live in a sibling family

According to the official description there is a separate Small Caps family; it is not included in this download.

FAQs

Collections with Alegreya

• Old-style and revival serif fonts for books

  Digital revivals of Renaissance, baroque and later book types, and new designs in the old-style tradition, most with italics, for novels, essays and fine printing.

• Fonts that support Greek

  Open-license families with Greek glyphs beside Latin, for Greek-language sites and for mathematics, science and classics.

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