Alegreya Sans

Try Alegreya Sans

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Alegreya Sans Thin Thin Italic
• Light 300Alegreya Sans Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Alegreya Sans Regular Italic
• Medium 500Alegreya Sans Medium Medium Italic
• Bold 700Alegreya Sans Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Alegreya Sans ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Alegreya Sans Black Black Italic

About Alegreya Sans

Alegreya Sans is a sans serif family on humanist proportions; its strokes thicken and thin slightly and end in angled, pen-like cuts. In the specimen the numerals are oldstyle figures: 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 drop below the baseline while 6 and 8 rise above the lowercase. The official description presents the family as the sans member of the Alegreya type system, a super family first intended for literature, and says its varied rhythm is aimed at readers of long texts. There are seven weights, Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, ExtraBold and Black, each with an italic, for 14 styles; the family is static, not variable. The fonts hold 2,058 glyphs and cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese. Juan Pablo del Peral drew Alegreya Sans, HT Fonts (Huerta Tipografica) published it, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Alegreya Sans works

Long articles and essays

The stroke modulation and oldstyle figures were designed for extended reading, the purpose of the whole Alegreya system.

Captions and notes beside Alegreya

As the sans sibling of the Alegreya serif it shares proportions, so side notes and captions sit naturally next to serif text.

Multilingual publications

Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese are all in the 2,058-glyph set, enough for one design across several editions.

Headings with strong emphasis

ExtraBold and Black give two steps above Bold for titles, and the italics add a second voice at every weight.

Reports with running figures

Oldstyle numerals blend into sentences, so dates and amounts inside paragraphs do not jump out like capitals.

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 Sans

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 Sans 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 Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlegreyaSans-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Alegreya Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlegreyaSans-BlackItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Alegreya Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlegreyaSans-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Alegreya Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlegreyaSans-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 10 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Alegreya Sans 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+Sans:ital,wght@0,100;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,700;0,800;0,900;1,100;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,700;1,800;1,900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Seven weights, with gaps

The weights are Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, ExtraBold and Black. There is no ExtraLight or SemiBold.

Static files

Alegreya Sans is not variable. The download is 14 separate TTF files, one per style.

Small caps are a separate family

The official description mentions a Small Caps companion family; it is not part of this package.

FAQs

Collections with Alegreya Sans

• Humanist sans-serif fonts for readable text

  Sans-serif families with open, pen-influenced letterforms that stay comfortable in paragraphs, documents and interface text.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts