Typecase

Open licence · Serif

Alegreya

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Alegreya webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Alegreya.

Alegreyathe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

low x-heightnormal widthmoderate contrast

Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.

Fonts similar to Alegreya, measured

Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Alegreya, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Fenix webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Fenix.

Fenixclose on every measure

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Sahitya webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Sahitya.

Sahityaclose on every measure

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Zilla Slab webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Zilla Slab.

Zilla Slabclose on every measure

These are the first 3 of 746 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.

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Alegreya as a free alternative to

Alegreya is suggested on 4 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.

In the app

Search the whole open catalogue by name, category and measured character, preview every result in your own words, and save it to a Board. Open the app — the shelf, search and the first three results of any search are free.