Free fonts similar to Canela

The alternatives in detail

How to recognize Canela

Miguel Reyes, 2016, Commercial Type. It began as an interpretation of Caslon and was shaped by the designer’s experience with stone carving.

• Stroke endings flare out slightly instead of carrying real serifs.
• Graceful, high-contrast curves, most often seen in the Thin and Light weights at large sizes.
• A quiet, monumental feel, as if the letters were carved rather than written.

In a site’s CSS it may appear as Canela Text, Canela Deck, Canela Condensed, Canela Web. Not sure what you are looking at? Identify the font on the live page first.

Is Canela free?

Commercial, sold by Commercial Type. It is not on Adobe Fonts and not preinstalled on any system.

The alternatives on this page are open source, so you can use them on commercial sites, self-host the files and ship them in products. Read more in font licensing in plain English.

Use Fraunces in your CSS

Put the free font first and keep sensible fallbacks behind it. Self-hosting the files is the most private and usually the fastest option.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Fraunces";
  src: url("/fonts/fraunces-400.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fraunces";
  src: url("/fonts/fraunces-700.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Fraunces", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
}