Licenses

Aleo

Alessio Laiso · 2013 · OFL-1.1 · Variable

Alessio Laiso drew Aleo as a slab companion to Lato, and it behaves like one: the skeleton is a humanist sans with serifs added rather than a nineteenth century Egyptian brought up to date. That makes it unusually comfortable at text sizes for a slab, where most of the genre is too insistent to read for long. Nine weights on one axis, with a genuine italic rather than a slope.

Variable · 163 KB · 2 files

All weights in one file, for Figma, Illustrator, InDesign and the web.

Static · 651 KB · 18 files

One file per weight, works everywhere including older Word and Photoshop.

The license file is inside both zips.

See Aleo with Lorem Ipsum

Alphabets

Style

Click the text above to set it in your own words.

Weight — 400

Specification

Designer
Alessio Laiso
Released
2013
Category
Serif
License
OFL-1.1
Commercial use
Allowed
Good for
Headlines, Body text, Editorial, Interfaces
Weights
100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
Styles
Normal, Italic
Variable
Yes
Glyphs
679
Languages
Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Vietnamese
Download size
163 KB
Source
github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/aleo

Size ladder

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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

40

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

24

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

16

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

12

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Aleo character map

Uppercase

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • X
  • Y
  • Z

Lowercase

  • a
  • b
  • c
  • d
  • e
  • f
  • g
  • h
  • i
  • j
  • k
  • l
  • m
  • n
  • o
  • p
  • q
  • r
  • s
  • t
  • u
  • v
  • w
  • x
  • y
  • z

Numerals

  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9

Punctuation & symbols

  • .
  • ,
  • :
  • ;
  • !
  • ?
  • '
  • "
  • ‘
  • ’
  • “
  • ”
  • (
  • )
  • [
  • ]
  • {
  • }
  • /
  • \
  • |
  • -
  • –
  • —
  • _
  • @
  • #
  • $
  • %
  • &
  • *
  • +
  • =
  • <
  • >
  • ~
  • ^
  • `
  • €
  • £
  • ¥
  • ©
  • ®
  • °
  • §
  • †
  • •
  • …

Use Aleo on the web

Self-hosted

You serve the file yourself. Nothing depends on this site staying up, and you get the whole character set — all Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Vietnamese.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Aleo';
  /* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
     files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
     size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
  src: url('/fonts/aleo.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Aleo', serif;
}

Hosted by us

One line, nothing to upload. Put this in your <head>:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/aleo.css">

Then use it in your CSS:

body {
  font-family: 'Aleo', serif;
}

One thing to know: the file we host is cut down to Latin characters so pages load quickly. Aleo also covers Türkçe, Vietnamese, and for those you need the download and the self-hosted route.

Aleo license

OFL-1.1

You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.

Commercial use allowed

Designed by Alessio Laiso

Copyright 2013 The Aleo Project Authors (https://github.com/AlessioLaiso/aleo)

Read the full license text · What these licenses mean

The license file is included inside the download.

Questions

Is Aleo free for commercial use?
Yes. Aleo is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
Can I use Aleo in a logo?
Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Aleo belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Alessio Laiso. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
How do I install Aleo?
Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. Aleo is a variable font: those files carry all 9 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Aleo that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 18 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
Does Aleo support Turkish?
Yes. Aleo includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
What languages does Aleo support?
Yes. Aleo covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese, across 679 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

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