Alatsi

Try Alatsi

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Alatsi Regular

About Alatsi

Alatsi is a geometric sans serif of slightly narrow proportions designed by Spyros Zevelakis; Eben Sorkin is credited beside him, and Sorkin Type publishes the family. The specimen shows a single weight that is darker than a typical regular, with low contrast, round bowls and sharply pointed tips on A, V and W. The official notes connect those points and the treatment of the terminals to the face's contemporary feel, and a modest x-height to its calm one. For a one-style family the glyph set is large: 1,191 glyphs. The notes list old-style figures, numerators, denominators, fractions and case-sensitive forms, and say an upgrade in November 2022 extended coverage to most Latin-based languages. Alatsi includes Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Alatsi works

Headlines and subheads

A dark single weight on semi-condensed proportions fits a headline into a column while keeping round, open letters.

Brand names and packaging

Pointed A, V and W give a wordmark sharp accents among otherwise calm geometric shapes.

Prices, dates and measurements

Old-style figures, fractions, numerators and denominators cover recipe quantities, sizes and price tags without workarounds.

All-capitals labels

Case-sensitive forms adjust punctuation to the height of capitals in buttons and tags.

Titles in many Latin-script languages

The 1,191 glyphs reach Central European languages, Turkish and Vietnamese in the same weight.

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 Alatsi

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

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Alatsi 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=Alatsi&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One weight

Alatsi is Regular 400 only. There is no lighter text weight, bold or italic.

Figure styles are OpenType features

Old-style figures, fractions and case-sensitive forms have to be switched on in software that supports OpenType features.

No Cyrillic in practice

The source lists an extended Cyrillic subset, but the files contain no usable glyphs for it; the coverage is Latin and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts