Typeface Design for a Humanist Sans Family
Display quirks folded into a unicase stylistic set
Aller is a humanist sans-serif family by Dalton Maag spanning Hairline to Black weights with upright and italic styles. It supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts across more than 850 languages. A unicase stylistic set consolidates display-specific features that previously existed only in a separate Display variant, unifying text and display use within a single family.
Set in Aller
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- The unicase stylistic set replaces a formerly separate Display cut, reducing family fragmentation.
- Four designers contributed across a development span of roughly sixteen years (2010–2026).
- OpenType features include both lining and oldstyle numerals, tabular and proportional variants, and scientific inferiors.
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