Aleo

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Weights and styles

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

Aleo 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 Aleo

Aleo is a slab serif family with rectangular serifs whose corners and joins are slightly rounded, and with only modest contrast between thick and thin strokes. In the specimen the lowercase is open and upright, the a is double-storey, and the serifs stay sturdy even in the Thin weight. Alessio Laiso designed Aleo as the slab serif counterpart of Lato, the sans serif by Łukasz Dziedzic. The family is variable on a weight axis from 100 to 900, with nine named weights and matching italics, 18 styles altogether. According to the official notes, an update in June 2023 brought the family to that size, made it variable, reworked the design and spacing, and added Vietnamese and Pan-African Latin letters. The fonts contain 675 glyphs across the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Aleo works

Headings above Lato text

Aleo was made as the slab partner of Lato, so a page can use Aleo for titles and Lato for body copy with matching proportions.

Editorial body text

Modest contrast and open lowercase shapes keep paragraphs readable, with italics available at all nine weights.

Brand systems needing a warm slab

Rounded serif corners soften the slab structure, and Thin to Black gives a wide range for logotypes and campaigns.

Thin display titles

Thin 100 keeps its slab serifs intact, which gives large light headings a distinct outline.

Vietnamese-language sites

Vietnamese letters arrived with the June 2023 update and are part of the 675 glyphs.

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 Aleo

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

body {
  font-family: "Aleo", serif;
}

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

Things to know

Grew in June 2023

The official notes say the update tripled the style count, made Aleo variable and changed design and spacing, so text set in the older version may reflow.

Weight is the only axis

Aleo varies from 100 to 900 in weight only, in separate upright and italic files.

No Cyrillic or Greek

Coverage is Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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