Square Peg

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What do I do with this?

Just want to use the font? Click "Get this font on Google Fonts" to download it or add it directly to a document, design tool (like Canva or Photoshop), or your computer's font list.

Building a website? Click "Copy Font Code" to copy a short snippet, then paste it into your website's HTML (usually inside the <head> section) to use this font on your site.

Square Peg is a casual, looping handwriting font with a relaxed, slightly bouncy rhythm. Its letterforms have a natural, pen-on-paper quality with moderate contrast and open curves that keep it legible even at display sizes. It leans informal and approachable without looking sloppy, sitting somewhere between a quick personal note and a considered hand-lettered logo. The overall feel is warm and unpretentious, making it easy to read as a short burst of text while still carrying enough personality to stand on its own.

Square Peg works well for small business branding where the goal is to feel personal and human rather than corporate, such as bakeries, boutique shops, or independent studios. It suits event invitations and greeting card designs where a handwritten aesthetic adds sincerity without requiring actual calligraphy. It also fits lifestyle or food blogs as a display or headline font, giving the site a handcrafted tone that aligns with content about cooking, crafting, or slow living. In each case, it is best kept to short text runs like names, taglines, or section headers rather than body copy.

Best suited for: Consider Square Peg for short-form display applications including branding elements, event invitations, greeting cards, and lifestyle blog headers where handwritten warmth enhances the message.

Design considerations: As a single-weight handwriting font, Square Peg offers consistent personality across applications but benefits from pairing with fonts that provide typographic range and hierarchy. Its casual looping style performs best at display scales and short text runs rather than extended passages.

Pairing guidance: Pair Square Peg with Playfair Display to anchor elegant layouts with serif formality, use Lato to provide clean sans-serif utility for body text and navigation, or combine with Caveat to layer complementary handwriting styles at different scales or weights for added visual depth.

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Which languages does Square Peg support?

Square Peg includes 3 character sets:

• Latin: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and other Western European languages
• Latin Extended: Central and Eastern European languages such as Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian and Hungarian
• Vietnamese: Vietnamese, including its stacked tone marks

It does not include Cyrillic or Greek characters, so it can't set Russian, Ukrainian or Greek text.

Can I use Square Peg commercially?

Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. Square Peg is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in logos, websites, apps, videos, printed products and merchandise without paying or asking permission. The one thing you can't do is sell the font file on its own.

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