Alumni Sans

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Weights and styles

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

Alumni 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 Alumni Sans

Alumni Sans is a tall, narrow sans serif whose round letters are drawn with nearly straight sides. The official notes say the design started from a single black display style and was then extended down to a very thin weight; the two extremes, Thin and Black, are meant for display, and the weights between them for more conventional text setting. In the specimen the Black fills almost the whole letter, leaving slit-like counters, while Thin is a hairline. The family is built as a variable font with its weight axis running from 100 to 900, supplied as one roman and one italic file, and names nine weights in each, 18 styles. Its 1,002 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese and Cyrillic. Robert Leuschke is the designer, and the fonts carry the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Alumni Sans works

Poster and banner headlines

Compressed capitals with straight-sided rounds pack many characters into a line, and Black gives them a dense, block-like colour.

Team, school and event graphics

Tall narrow capitals and matching italics suit scoreboards, jerseys and fixture lists, where the slant adds a sense of movement.

Large light titles

Thin and ExtraLight at big sizes draw a headline as a hairline, a contrast to the heavy end of the same axis.

Subheads and short text in tight layouts

The middle weights, Regular to SemiBold, are the ones the official notes point to for conventional text use.

Animated weight changes

A continuous 100 to 900 axis lets a title move between hairline and block weight in motion graphics or on hover.

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
• Russian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, 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 Alumni 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 Alumni 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: "Alumni Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlumniSans-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Alumni Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlumniSans-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

The axis starts at Thin

The weight axis runs from 100 to 900 and its default value is 100, so software that ignores the axis shows the Thin design. Choose a weight explicitly.

Two variable files

The download contains one variable file for the upright styles and one for the italics. Static files for individual weights are not in the package.

Cyrillic without the extended set

Alumni Sans has the Cyrillic subset; the Cyrillic Extended subset is not complete in the fonts.

FAQs

Collections with Alumni Sans

• Bold fonts for posters and big headlines

  Heavy and condensed open-license display fonts that hold a sheet from across the room: gothics, slabs, fat faces and stencils.

• Thin and hairline fonts for light, airy headings

  Families with a Thin weight and single-style hairline display faces, for large headings, covers and minimal layouts.

Similar fonts

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