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Alison Text
Alison Text combines legibility with character strength.
Le mot "remarquable" porte en lui une douce grandeur, une admiration discrète qui transparaît à travers les voiles de l'ordinaire. C'est comme un léger geste vers l'extraordinaire caché – un instant qui nous coupe le souffle, un être qui, dans sa grâce silencieuse, dépasse tout ce que nous avions imaginé. "Remarquable" est l'élégance d'un moment figé dans son unicité, qu'il s'agisse d'un coucher de soleil embrasant le ciel ou d'un cœur qui brille en silence.
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Alison Text strives for elegance in body text.

How can Alison Head’s high-contrast extravagance make a legible text typeface? Distinctive and dependable, Alison Text is the answer.

Inspired by the quirky charm of Altona and the refinement of Alison Head, Alison Text is a reliable foundation for her bold, contrasting siblings. Combined in Alison Variable, the two Alison sisters form a system and express the sophistication of a Didone in text and display versions.

Carefully designed and refined for body text, Alison Text combines good legibility with a delicate appearance. The hairlines, grey scale of regular weight, and the x-height and its relationship to ascenders and descenders have all been specially adapted for small point sizes.

From stable body text, exceptional literature, cosmopolitan publishers, fashion and lifestyle magazines, to museum catalogues and prestigious art magazines, Alison Text is for anyone looking for a typeface with strong contrast, character and composure.

An emancipated evolution of Didone typefaces, Alison is powerful and expressive. This is clearest in the vertically accented serifs and the narrow arches in the curves of b and d, for example. They create a distinctive typeface that contrasts soft strokes and familiar teardrops with a new angularity. Alison’s warm, refined serifs and strokes have a fine, light flow that creates a distinctive character even in small point sizes.

Over 60 different gender symbols offer a fresh, political perspective and typographic expression of modern diversity - even if the official Unicode standard does not yet cover them all.

Alison Text offers comprehensive coverage of Latin languages and all the OpenType features needed for sophisticated layouts: small caps and various figures, including tabular and old style figures, alternatives for accents in Stylistic Set 08, and variants of the & in Stylistic Set 05/06.

Alison Text is not alone. Her sister, Alison Head, brings the same spirit to elegant and expressive display typeface.

Designed by
Julia Uplegger
in 2024
Contributions
Albert-Jan Pool, Antonia Cornelius
Specs
Providing 5 weights, more than 1,300 glyphs per font
Formats
otf and ttf for desktop and apps, plus woff and woff2 for web
Tags
SerifRegularBody TextPublishingLatinExpressiveElegantVariable FontSmall CapsLigatures
Related Typefaces
Altona, Alison Head, Bridge Text, Edie & Eddy Text

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: Tabular Punctuation, Subscript, Superscript, Tabular Figures
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In-Use & Articles

A New Awakening with Altona and Alison
Making Of Altona and Alison

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

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