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Typeface Design for Adelle Sans

30 Latin styles built to pair seamlessly with slab serif companion Adelle

Adelle Sans is a grotesque sans-serif family designed by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione at TypeTogether, released in 2012. Its 30 Latin styles span eight weights with matching italics plus a condensed width of seven weights; each Latin style is weight- and proportion-matched to the companion slab serif Adelle for harmonious mixed-family setting. The family has since expanded to nine scripts—Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Latin Extended, and Thai—with each script carrying between seven and fourteen styles, optically harmonised to Latin counterparts and bundled with Latin for mixed-script use.

Set in Adelle Sans

Insights

Every Latin style is weight- and vertical-proportion-matched to Adelle so the two families can mix within the same text block at similar point sizes.
Non-Latin scripts each carry between seven and fourteen styles, all optically harmonised to Latin counterparts through collaboration with script specialists.
Condensed widths were specifically developed to retain typographic character when setting short runs of text.
The Latin character set includes small caps, multiple figure sets, icons, case-sensitive forms, discretionary ligatures, and support for over 245 Latin-based languages.