Allan

Try Allan

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Allan Regular
• Bold 700Allan Bold

About Allan

Allan is a display typeface with the quick, slanted strokes of a sign painter's brush. In the specimen the letters are narrow and lean forward, strokes keep a nearly even thickness and end in rounded tips, and the lowercase has handwritten touches: an n with a flicked exit stroke, a looped k and a y with a curled tail. The official notes introduce the face through a character, a sign painter in Berlin, and state that it comes with alternates and hinting and is meant for bigger sizes and display work. The family has two weights, Regular and Bold; both are slanted and there is no upright style. Its 234 glyphs cover Western European Latin. Anton Koovit is the designer, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Allan works

Shop signs and window lettering

The face is modelled on a sign painter's hand, and its narrow letters fit a long name onto a fascia.

Menus and price boards

Regular for items and Bold for section names gives a board two levels without leaving the family.

Festival and market posters

Slanted brush strokes with rounded tips look hand-painted at poster size.

Headlines in narrow columns

Condensed proportions fit more characters per line than a regular-width face.

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
• Slovenian
• Estonian

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French œ, Œ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Allan

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 Allan 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: "Allan";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Allan-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Allan";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Allan-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Allan 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=Allan:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Both styles are slanted

Regular and Bold lean forward, and the family has no upright companion.

Made for larger sizes

The official notes describe Allan as a display face; it was not drawn for paragraphs.

Western European Latin with one gap

The font has 234 glyphs. French is covered except for the œ ligature, and no Latin Extended set is included.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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