Adelle Sans


- Styles
- 30
- Weights
- 7
- Variable
- No
- Scripts
Latin - Year
- 2012
Lead design and concept
Quality assurance
Engineering
Graphic design
Copywriting
- Josh Farmer
Motion graphics
- Typographica, Best Typefaces, 2012
- Yearbook of Type I, 2013
- Clap, 2013
- ISTD, 2014
- Rutenia, 2014
Adelle Sans provides a clean and spirited take on the traditional grotesque sans. Whether for branding, signage, or advertising, the keyword behind Adelle Sans’s use is flexibility. Each of its 30 styles is a perfect match in terms of weight and vertical proportions to its slab serif equivalent, Adelle, ensuring an harmonious fit between both type families in the same block of text and a pleasing change of texture when used at similar point sizes. Adelle Sans is an exhaustive family with extensive language support.
The Adelle Sans font family by José Scaglione and Veronika Burian provides a more clean and spirited take on the traditional grotesque sans. As is typical with TypeTogether typefaces, the most demanding editorial design problems were taken into consideration during its creation. The combination of lively character and unobtrusive appearance inherent to grotesque sans serifs make it an utterly versatile tool for every imaginable situation. Whether for global branding, screens, signage and advertising, or UI, the keyword behind Adelle Sans’s use is flexibility.
To save space and keep legibility high, Adelle Sans is available in eight weights with matching italics and includes a condensed width of seven weights with their matching italics. Each of these 30 styles hits the perfect tone as a headline punch or subdued background hum, and the condensed widths are adept at setting short texts while retaining the expected personality.
Rooted in the belief that broad language support is crucial to modern global type design, the Latin-matching variants are yet another push in TypeTogether’s ongoing multilingual efforts. The Latin script may have been first, but Adelle Sans has thus far been expanded into an exhaustive nine script family with extensive language support. Careful research and close collaboration with type experts yielded typographic consistency, legibility, and cultural awareness among all scripts, as well as filling the need for quality editorial typefaces in Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Latin Extended, Greek, and Thai, with more planned for the future.
In addition to the 30 Latin styles, all other scripts have between seven and fourteen styles, each of which has been engineered to optically match the proportions of its counterparts. And each script comes bundled with the Latin script to ensure an harmonious fit amongst any two or more Adelle Sans families in the same block of text.
The full Adelle Sans family delivers consistent, flexible, and personable results in multilingual documents, in apps, and multicultural branding worldwide. Its wide character set includes typographic niceties, small caps, several sets of figures, icons, and support for over 245 Latin-based languages. Be sure to check out the companions for Adelle Sans: Adelle, for a versatile and authoritative slab serif with no shortage of personality; and Adelle Mono, a two-width family flexible enough for developers and graphic designers alike.
Styles
- Condensed Thin Buy
- Condensed Thin Italic Buy
- Condensed Light Buy
- Condensed Light Italic Buy
- Condensed Regular Buy
- Condensed Italic Buy
- Condensed Semibold Buy
- Condensed Semibold Italic Buy
- Condensed Bold Buy
- Condensed Bold Italic Buy
- Condensed Extrabold Buy
- Condensed Extrabold Italic Buy
- Condensed Heavy Buy
- Condensed Heavy Italic Buy
- Ultrathin Buy
- Ultrathin Italic Buy
- Thin Buy
- Thin Italic Buy
- Light Buy
- Light Italic Buy
- Regular Buy
- Italic Buy
- Semibold Buy
- Semibold Italic Buy
- Bold Buy
- Bold Italic Buy
- Extrabold Buy
- Extrabold Italic Buy
- Heavy Buy
- Heavy Italic Buy
Type Testers
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