Alegreya SC

Try Alegreya SC

Weights and styles

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

About Alegreya SC

Alegreya SC is a serif family in which small capitals take the place of lowercase letters. It belongs to the Alegreya type system, which the official notes say was first meant for literature, with a varied rhythm that refers to calligraphy without imitating it. The specimen shows that origin: stems lean and swell slightly, serifs are wedge-shaped and asymmetric, the figures are old-style, and the ampersand is drawn as a flowing et. Typing lowercase produces small caps whose weight matches the full capitals beside them. Ten static files are included: Regular, Medium, Bold, ExtraBold and Black, each with an italic; the notes call the Black weights experimental for the genre. The 1,491 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese, Cyrillic and Greek. Juan Pablo del Peral is the designer, and Huerta Tipográfica the foundry.

Where Alegreya SC works

Chapter openings and running heads

Small caps mark the first words of a chapter or the header of a page without the loudness of full capitals.

Names, bylines and title pages

A name typed with an initial capital sets as a capital followed by small caps.

Acronyms inside Alegreya text

Abbreviations set in Alegreya SC sit at the height of the lowercase in a paragraph of the main family.

Book covers and posters

ExtraBold and Black turn the wedge serifs into strong display shapes.

Headings in Cyrillic and Greek

Both scripts are included, so translated editions can keep the same small-cap headings.

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 SC

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 SC 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 SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlegreyaSC-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Alegreya SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlegreyaSC-BlackItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Alegreya SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlegreyaSC-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Alegreya SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlegreyaSC-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 6 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

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

Things to know

No lowercase

Lowercase keys produce small capitals. For ordinary lowercase use the main Alegreya family.

Weights skip SemiBold

The steps are 400, 500, 700, 800 and 900; there is no Light and no 600.

Old-style figures

The numerals in the specimen rise and fall like lowercase letters.

FAQs

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