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Alison Head
powerfully delicate and uniquely confident
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Extravagant, highly-contrasted and finely detailed, Alison Head finds her own way to redefine the Didone

Inspired by Altona’s flair, Alison picks up a hundred years on to combine historic finesse with modern refinement. Alison is an emancipated evolution of the Didone: powerful and expressive. This attitude is most evident in the vertical serifs. Creating a distinct and characteristic image, they enrich the soft strokes and familiar teardrop terminals with a new sharpness. In this way, Alison confidently breaks new ground.

Alison’s serifs lightly curved serifs give a crisp presence on the page and individual details, like the calligraphic twist to z, k, and y add to her charisma.

Elegant corporate design, cosmopolitan law firm, edgy fashion label or premium brand - Alison Head is ready for anyone who wants to use bold, modern typography.

In addition to all the usual TypeMates OpenType features and stylistic sets, Alison comes with small caps. With slimmer serifs and other details, Stylistic Set 01 gives Alison a fresher, sharper feel. Another eye-catching feature is Stylistic Set 10’s stacked ‘nut’ fractions.

Alison goes one step further: over 60 different gender symbols offer a fresh, political perspective and typographic recognition of modern diversity – even if the official Unicode standard’s still to catch up.

Alison Head is not alone. Her sister, Alison Text, applies the same spirit to a robust and reliable text typeface.

Designed by
Julia Uplegger
in 2024
Contributions
Albert-Jan Pool, Antonia Cornelius
Specs
Formats
Tags
SerifRegularHeadlinesPublishingLatinExpressiveElegantVariable FontSmall CapsLigatures
Related Typefaces
Altona, Alison Text, Bridge Head, Edie & Eddy Modern

Styles

  • Light
  • Regular
  • Medium
  • Bold
  • Black
Character Set
Language Support
Supports more than 200 Languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz , Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari , Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Sotho (Northern, Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni
OpenType Features
All OpenType Features included: Access All Alternates, Caps to Small Caps, Contextual Alternates, Denominator, Discretionary Ligatures, Fractions, Glyph Composition/Decomposition, Kerning, Ligatures, Lining Figures, Localized Forms, Mark to Mark Positioning, Numerators, Old style Figures, Ordinals, Proportional Figures, Scientific Inferiors, Slashed Zero, Small Capitals, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set: Alternate Ampersand, Stylistic Set: Alternate Q, Stylistic Set: Circled Numbers, Stylistic Set: Connecting Accents, Stylistic Set: Curly Question Mark, Stylistic Set: German Capital Sharp S, Stylistic Set: Negative Circled Numbers, Stylistic Set: Signpainter’s Ampersand, Stylistic Set: Stacked Fractions, Stylistic Set: Strong Serifs, Stylistic Set: Tabular Punctuation, Subscript, Superscript, Tabular Figures

Julia Uplegger at Typostammtisch in Hamburg, 1st of February 2024