What is the Albiona font?
A contemporary slab-serif which revisits aspects of Robert Besley’s classic , designed around 1842 for Thorowgood and Co. and named after the Clarendon Press in Oxford.
Subsequently extended by Stephenson Blake in the 1950s, Albiona adds the inwardly-curved stroke terminals of the same foundry ’s Grotesque series, and includes italics and old-style and tabular numerals. The original Clarendon’s ball serifs and calligraphic eccentricities have been rationalised and streamlined for functional contemporary uses.
The family consists of five weights plus italics and a stencil, and its clean readable style is perfect for both extended text as well as headline setting.
Albiona Font families
The Albiona includes the following font families:
- Albiona ExtraLight
- Albiona ExtraLight Italic
- Albiona Light
- Albiona Light Italic
- Albiona Medium
- Albiona Medium Italic
- Albiona Bold
- Albiona Bold Italic
- Albiona Heavy
- Albiona Heavy Italic
- Albiona Heavy Stencil
Albiona Preview
Here is a preview of how Albiona will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.