Peralta

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Peralta Regular

About Peralta

Peralta is a slab serif display typeface drawn to look deliberately off balance. In the specimen the capitals are wide and low, with thick slabs at top and bottom and thinner uprights, while the lowercase reverses that pattern and puts the weight into the stems. Letters lean in different directions and the serifs are cut at slightly different angles, so a word seems to bounce along the baseline. The official description calls the result comic, and the heavy colour makes that humour visible from a distance. Peralta has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 373 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended subsets. The family is credited to Astigmatic; the copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky, who trades under that name, and the font is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Peralta works

Cartoon and comic titles

The tilting slabs and uneven stress give a title the look of hand-painted cartoon lettering without any extra effects.

Children's event posters

One heavy weight with thick serifs stays readable across a room when a few words are set large.

Game and toy packaging

Wide capitals with heavy horizontal slabs fill a box front with a short product name.

Humorous social graphics

A caption of three or four words in the bouncing lowercase carries the joke by its shape alone.

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 Peralta

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

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

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

Things to know

Capitals and lowercase behave differently

Capitals are heaviest in their horizontal strokes, lowercase in the verticals. All-caps lines therefore look wider and flatter than mixed-case ones.

One style only

Peralta ships as a single Regular file with no italic or bold cut.

Latin and Latin Extended

The subsets are latin and latin-ext. No Cyrillic or Greek characters are present.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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