Open Sans Sans Serif
Alike is serif and Open Sans is sans serif (6 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.
Alike
A low-contrast text serif by Sveta Sebyakina with taut, slightly angular curves, published by Cyreal.
Alike is a serif text typeface designed by Sveta Sebyakina in 2009 and first released by Cyreal in 2011, in collaboration with Alexei Vanyashin. Its letterforms are tense and expressive, with regular proportions and low contrast. Alike has one Regular style with 362 glyphs and is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- Designers
- Sveta Sebyakina, Cyreal
- Classification
- Serif
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Styles
- 1 1 weight
- Variable font
- No
- Glyphs
- 362
- Languages checked
- 24 see the list
- Last updated
- version 1.301; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.7-5d5b)
Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.
Try Alike
Sample text
Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Alike; the download contains the complete files.
Weights and styles
- Regular 400Alike Regular
About Alike
Alike is a serif typeface intended for text. The official notes call its letterforms expressive and tense, mention a Czech influence that has been softened to feel friendlier, and point to regular proportions and low contrast as aids to reading. Looking at the specimen, the tension shows in curves that turn a little abruptly: the bowls of a and e, the shoulder of n and the tail of y have a slight angular snap, while the serifs are firm and wedge-like. Strokes stay fairly sturdy throughout, so the Regular prints with an even, moderately dark colour. Sveta Sebyakina designed Alike in 2009, and Cyreal first released it in 2011 with Alexei Vanyashin collaborating. A complementary titling style, Alike Angular, exists as a separate family. Alike has one Regular style with 362 glyphs in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Where Alike works
- Book-style body copy
- Regular proportions and low contrast were chosen for comfortable reading in continuous text.
- Blog and essay headings
- The slightly angular curves give a heading more bite than a smooth transitional serif.
- Pull quotes
- Sturdy strokes hold their colour when a sentence is enlarged in the middle of an article.
- Central European languages
- Latin Extended coverage supplies accents for Czech, Slovak, Polish and Hungarian text.
Glyphs
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢
Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 362 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
Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2009 The Alike Project Authors (https://github.com/cyrealtype/Alike) with Reserved Font Name "Alike" and "Alike Angular".
What the license allows
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.
Conditions
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.
This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.
Fonts that pair with Alike
B612 Mono Monospace
B612 Mono is a monospace family (2 weights) for code and figures next to Alike as the text face.
Montserrat Alternates Sans Serif
Alike is serif and Montserrat Alternates is sans serif (9 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.
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 Alike 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.
CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: "Alike";
src: url("/assets/fonts/Alike-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Alike", serif;
}Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Alike with this markup:
HTML, Google Fonts
<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=Alike&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Things to know
- One style
- Alike has Regular 400 only; there is no italic or bold.
- A titling sibling exists
- Alike Angular is described in the official notes as a complementary titling style.
- Reserved Font Names
- The copyright notice reserves the names Alike and Alike Angular.
FAQs
Is Alike free for commercial use?
Yes. Alike is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license and may not use a Reserved Font Name without permission.
Who designed Alike?
Alike was designed by Sveta Sebyakina and released by Cyreal, in collaboration with Alexei Vanyashin.
How many weights does Alike have?
Alike has one weight, Regular 400.
What is Alike Angular?
Alike Angular is a separate titling style that complements Alike, according to the official notes.
Which languages does Alike support?
Alike includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Czech, Polish, Turkish and Hungarian.
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