Alegreya Sans Sans Serif
Square Peg is a handwriting face for headings; Alegreya Sans is a sans serif family with 7 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Square Peg
Shaky, thin pen handwriting with tall narrow capitals and a tiny lowercase, in one weight.
Square Peg is a casual handwriting typeface credited to Robert Leuschke, with a shaky, rough line of almost even thickness. Square Peg comes in one Regular style with 642 glyphs and covers Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits scrapbook pages, notes and playful captions.
- Designer
- Robert Leuschke
- Classification
- Handwriting
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Styles
- 1 1 weight
- Variable font
- No
- Glyphs
- 642
- Languages checked
- 25 see the list
- Last updated
- version 1.010; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.7-5d5b)
- Used for
- CasualSocial mediaKids
Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.
Try Square Peg
Sample text
Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Square Peg; the download contains the complete files.
Weights and styles
- Regular 400Square Peg Regular
About Square Peg
Square Peg is a handwriting typeface that looks like quick writing with a fine pen. The official notes describe the line as shaky, rough and almost mono-weight, with horizontal strokes slightly heavier than the rest, and the specimen bears that out: the outline trembles, capitals are tall and narrow, and the lowercase is very small beside them, with long hooked descenders on g, j, q and y. Some letters touch their neighbours, but the hand is mostly unjoined and leans a little to the right. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 642 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Robert Leuschke is credited as the designer, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Its makers suggest scrapbooking and other casual settings.
Where Square Peg works
- Scrapbook captions
- The official notes point to scrapbooking, where a thin, uneven pen line passes for a real handwritten note.
- Margin notes and annotations
- A tiny lowercase and narrow capitals fit comments into tight spaces beside photos or diagrams.
- Children's story details
- The trembling outline suits a character's diary entry, a label or a handwritten sign in an illustration.
- Informal cards and tags
- A short greeting in Square Peg looks jotted down by hand, not typeset.
Glyphs
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢
Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 642 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
Character sets found in the files: 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
SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 1995-2021 The Square Peg Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/square-peg)
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 Square Peg
Abhaya Libre Serif
Square Peg is a handwriting face for headings; Abhaya Libre is a serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Cairo Sans Serif
Square Peg is a handwriting face for headings; Cairo is a sans serif family with 8 weights that can set the body text beside it.
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 Square Peg 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: "Square Peg";
src: url("/assets/fonts/SquarePeg-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Square Peg", cursive;
}Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Square Peg 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=Square+Peg&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Things to know
- Small lowercase
- Lowercase letters are much shorter than the capitals in the specimen, so the font needs a larger size than a text face for the same legibility.
- One style
- Square Peg has a single Regular style with a thin line; there is no bold.
- Vietnamese is included
- The 642 glyphs cover Vietnamese as well as Western and Central European Latin.
FAQs
Is Square Peg free for commercial use?
Yes. Square Peg is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.
Who designed Square Peg?
Square Peg is credited to Robert Leuschke; the font's name table gives the name as Robert E. Leuschke. The copyright notice names The Square Peg Project Authors.
How many weights does Square Peg have?
Square Peg has one weight, Regular 400. It is not a variable font.
Which languages does Square Peg support?
Square Peg includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Romanian and Vietnamese.
Is Square Peg a cursive font?
Not fully. Square Peg is informal handwriting in which a few letters touch, but most letters stand apart.
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