Capriola

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Capriola Regular

About Capriola

Capriola is a sans serif typeface that borrows its structure from handwriting and italic letterforms. The official notes single out G, a, g, k and e as letters drawn on one hand movement, and the specimen confirms it: the g ends in an open looped tail, the a curls its bowl back into the stem, and the k forms its arm and leg from a single loop. Strokes are sturdy with little contrast and softly rounded ends, which gives the Regular a fairly dark, friendly colour. The name is said to mean somersault in Latin. Viktoriya Grabowska designed the face, the copyright notice names Sorkin Type Co, and the notes state it was spaced for web use. Capriola has a single Regular style of 412 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended, and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Capriola works

Headlines with a hand-drawn twist

The looped g and one-stroke k are easy to notice at large sizes and give a title its own character.

Friendly brand names

Rounded stroke ends and a sturdy Regular make a short wordmark feel informal without becoming a script.

Web introductions and pull quotes

The face was spaced for the web, and the notes say its gestures recede at smaller sizes, so short passages remain readable.

Children's and education material

Handwriting-based letter skeletons and soft terminals suit worksheets, covers and activity titles.

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
• 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

Fonts that pair with Capriola

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 Capriola 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: "Capriola";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Capriola-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Capriola 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=Capriola&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Single weight

Capriola has Regular 400 only, with no italic or bold.

Regular is on the dark side

In the specimen the strokes are noticeably heavier than a typical text regular, something to check before setting long copy.

Reserved Font Name

The copyright notice reserves the name Capriola, which matters if you distribute a modified version.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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