Albert Sans

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Weights and styles

• Thin 100Albert Sans Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Albert Sans ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Albert Sans Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Albert Sans Regular Italic
• Medium 500Albert Sans Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Albert Sans SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Albert Sans Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Albert Sans ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Albert Sans Black Black Italic

Albert Sans is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Albert Sans

Albert Sans is a geometric sans serif family with near-circular bowls, a double-storey a and strokes of almost even thickness. In the specimen the tail of the Q is a short vertical stroke that crosses the bottom of the bowl, and the t is cut at a slant at its top. The official description links the design to lettering by Scandinavian architects and designers working in the early 1900s. Albert Sans is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 100 to 900. Nine named weights, Thin to Black, each have an italic, which makes 18 styles. The fonts contain 405 glyphs in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets, with complete letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech and other European languages. Andreas Rasmussen, a Danish type designer at a.Foundry, drew the family. Albert Sans was added to Google Fonts in 2022 under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Albert Sans works

Product interfaces

Nine weights on one axis cover everything from hairline display numbers to heavy button labels without a second family.

Brand identities with a Nordic reference

The geometry draws on early twentieth-century Scandinavian architectural lettering, a clear starting point for a design-led brand.

Body text with emphasis

Every weight has an italic, so running text, captions and quotations keep the same letter shapes.

Presentations and reports

Thin and Black at opposite ends of the axis give slide titles and figures strong contrast with Regular text.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Albert Sans

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 Albert Sans 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: "Albert Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlbertSans-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Albert Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlbertSans-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Albert Sans 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=Albert+Sans:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One axis: weight

Albert Sans varies from 100 to 900 in weight. There is no width or optical size axis.

Latin only

The 405 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. Vietnamese, Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

Two variable files

The package contains one upright and one italic variable font; each holds all nine weights.

FAQs

Collections with Albert Sans

• Clean sans-serif fonts for app interfaces

  Open-license sans-serif families that stay clear in buttons, menus, tables and settings screens, with the weights an interface needs.

• Geometric sans-serif fonts

  Sans-serif families built on circles, straight lines and even strokes, from 1920s-inspired designs to current brand typefaces.

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