The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Alegreya SC
A free alternative to Copperplate Gothic.
About Alegreya SC
Alegreya SC is a small-caps serif by Juan Pablo del Peral, distributed on Google Fonts, with more weight and presence than most caps faces of its kind. The detailing is calligraphic rather than engraved: strokes that carry a written inflection, and a warmth that keeps the capitals from turning severe when set in a run. That sturdiness is the practical quality — it holds its color in running headers and labels instead of thinning out the way finer small-caps designs do.
Against Copperplate Gothic it matches the solidity, which is the harder half of the substitution. Copperplate's authority comes from mass and tiny incised serifs; Alegreya SC gets to a similar density by other means, trading the engraver's line for readability. Choose it for headers, nameplates, menus, and labels that want Copperplate's formal register without its brittleness at text sizes.
- Designer
- Juan Pablo del Peral
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 1 paid font page
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