Cinzel
A free alternative to Trajan
Natanael Gama went back to the capitals cut into first-century Roman stone — the source every inscriptional face since has gone back to — and drew a version with the proportions kept and the chisel eased off. The lowercase is not a lowercase: it is a set of small capitals, which is historically correct, because Roman inscriptions had no minuscule to copy. Six weights on one axis, and all of them want to be large.
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Natanael Gama
- Released
- 2012
- Category
- Display
- Alternative to
- Trajan
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Titles, Book covers, Invitations, Logotypes
- Weights
- 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 548
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe
- Download size
- 61 KB
Size ladder
96
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
64
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
40
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
24
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
16
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
12
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Characters
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use it on the web
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Cinzel';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/cinzel.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Cinzel', sans-serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/cinzel.css">body {
font-family: 'Cinzel', sans-serif;
}License
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Cinzel free for commercial use?
- Yes. Cinzel is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Cinzel in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Cinzel belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Natanael Gama. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Cinzel?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. Cinzel is a variable font: the single file carries all 6 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Cinzel that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 6 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Cinzel support Turkish?
- Yes. Cinzel includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- Does Cinzel support Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish?
- Yes. Cinzel covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 548 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.