# Peralta font

> A wobbly slab serif display face in one weight, with capitals and lowercase weighted in opposite ways.

Peralta is a comic slab serif display typeface credited to Astigmatic. Its wide capitals carry their weight in the horizontal slabs while the lowercase is heaviest in the stems, and every letter tilts a little. Peralta comes in one Regular style with 373 glyphs under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits playful headlines.

## Facts

- Classification: [Display](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/display)
- Designed by: Astigmatic
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 373
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-10
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Peralta
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/peralta
- Tagged for: Headlines, Posters, Casual, Kids

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2012, Brian J. Bonislawsky DBA Astigmatic (AOETI) (astigma@astigmatic.com), with Reserved Font Names "Peralta"

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Peralta free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Peralta may be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and redistributed; it cannot be sold on its own, and a modified version keeps the same license and may not use the reserved name Peralta without permission.

### Who designed Peralta?

Peralta is credited to Astigmatic. The copyright notice in the license names Brian J. Bonislawsky doing business as Astigmatic.

### How many weights does Peralta have?

Peralta has one weight, Regular 400, and no italic.

### Is Peralta a slab serif or a display font?

Both descriptions apply. Peralta is built on slab serif letterforms, but the uneven stress and tilted letters make it a display face for short lines rather than a text slab.

### Which languages does Peralta support?

Peralta includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish and Czech.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/peralta (trendhub)