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Alpino

By Alisa Nowak • Indian Type Foundry

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A design is only as good as its typography.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence.

Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. The five boxing wizards jump quickly.

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Family weight distribution

Weights Matrix

Thin 100
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
Light 300
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Regular 400
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
Medium 500
How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
Bold 700
The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
Black 900
Jinxed wizards pluck ivy from the big quilt.
Variable 1
Crazy Fredericka bought many very exquisite opal jewels.
Textual Density
The wind was a mournful wail as it whipped through the desolate landscape, stirring up dust and debris. The sky was a bleak and unforgiving gray, seeming to mirror the sadness that weighed heavy on the heart of the lone traveler. The road ahead was long and treacherous, with no end in sight. But still, the traveler pressed on, driven by an unshakable determination to reach their destination, no matter the cost. As the journey wore on, the traveler encountered countless hardships, from scorching sun and relentless rain.
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The Narrative

The Story of Alpino

Alpino is humanist sans with a small x-height optimised for magazine design and other editorial applications. The strokes of the letters have slightly rounded corners; this rounding is more apparent in the heavier weights. Alpino’s numerals are proportional oldstyle figures. The capital letters are wide, which harmonises well with the long ascenders and descenders. Alpino features some very distinctive letterforms: for instance, the capital ‘G’ has a beard, but no crossbar; the lowercase ‘a’ and ‘g’ are both double-storey; the ‘g’ has a flamboyant ear; the tail of the ‘y’ ends in a curve; the cedilla has a detached form.
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Version

1.0

License

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OpenType Features

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Tags

#Books#Branding#Magazines#Posters

Languages

Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Aranese, Aromanian, Aymara, Azeri (Latin), Basque, Bemba, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Cheyenne, Chichewa, Chuukese, Cofán, Cornish, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Ga, Galician, Ganda, German, Gikuyu, Greenlandic, Guaraní, Guarani, Gwich’in, Haitian, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Javanese, Karelian, Kashubian, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Kituba, Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxemburgish, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Maninka, Manx, Māori, Marshallese, Náhuatl, Nauruan, Navajo, Ndebele (Northern), Ndebele (Southern), Norfuk, Norn, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Nyanja, Occitan, Oromo, Otomi, Palauan, Papiamento, Pedi, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rarotongan, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romaji, Romani, Romanian, Sámi (Inari), Sámi (Lule), Sámi (Northern), Sámi (Southern), Samoan, Sango, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seychelles Creole, Shona, Silesian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali (Latin), Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tagalog (Filipino), Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Tuvalu, Twi, Ulithian, Umbundu, Veps, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use Alpino for commercial projects?

Yes, you can use Alpino for both personal and commercial projects. However, please review the specific terms of the itf_ffl license.

How many weights does Alpino include?

The Alpino family includes 7 specific weights and styles, providing excellent versatility for your typographic designs.

Who designed Alpino?

Alpino was designed by Alisa Nowak and naturally published by Indian Type Foundry.