Commercial · Serif · Monotype
Perpetua
Perpetua is a licensed font from Monotype: Complete family of 7 fonts: $209.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Perpetua is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Eric Gill
- Styles
- 7
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Complete family of 7 fonts: $209.99 USD (Individual Styles from $41.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Eric Gill's book face for Monotype, seven years in the making, with the sloped-roman italic Felicity and titling fonts; the page dates early use to 1929 but full release later. Seven styles.
Free alternatives to Perpetua
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Perpetua is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Sorts Mill Goudy webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Sorts Mill Goudy.
same classification
A revival of Goudy Oldstyle, a contemporary of Perpetua with a similar pen-derived, sharp-serifed roman.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cormorant webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cormorant.
same classification
A display serif of classical proportions and high contrast; suits Perpetua's titling role at large sizes.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Crimson Pro webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Crimson Pro.
same classification
A Garalde text face in many weights; fuller and softer than Perpetua's crisp drawing.
Own Perpetua? Point the app at the file and this list becomes measured: every open family ranked by how close it actually is, with the difference named. The file never leaves your machine.
Open the app →