Alata

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Alata Regular

About Alata

Alata is a geometric sans serif with low stroke contrast. Its capitals follow classical proportions, with a wide round O and G beside narrow E, F and S, and the A, M, N, V and W end in sharp points. The lowercase uses a single-storey a and near-circular bowls. The official description cites early twentieth-century poster lettering and monoline Greek inscriptions as sources, and notes that the capitals lean towards British lettering while the lowercase is more continental. Alata has a single Regular style and is not variable. Its 1,036 glyphs go beyond the basic set: oldstyle figures, superior numbers, fractions and case-sensitive forms are included. Coverage spans Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Spyros Zevelakis designed the typeface; Eben Sorkin widened its language coverage and reworked details in 2018, and Sorkin Type publishes it under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Alata works

Wordmarks in capitals

Pointed A, M and W beside a wide round O give an all-caps name the rhythm of inscriptional lettering.

Section headings

Low contrast and near-circular bowls keep headings even in colour above a text face with more modulation.

Menus, labels and price lists

Oldstyle figures, fractions and superior numbers are built in, so quantities and prices need no second font.

Titles in Vietnamese and Central European languages

The 1,036 glyphs carry the accents for Vietnamese, Polish, Czech, Turkish and Hungarian.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Alata

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Alata on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Alata";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Alata-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Alata", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Alata with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Alata&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Regular only

Alata has one weight and no italic, which limits it to headings and short passages.

Extra figure styles are OpenType features

Oldstyle figures, fractions and case-sensitive forms are in the font but must be switched on in software that supports OpenType features.

Revised in 2018

According to the official description, Eben Sorkin expanded the language coverage and refined the design that year.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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