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Aldero™ Font Features & Specimens

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Aldero versatile sans serif font family showing its two distinct looks: formal corporate design and casual stylistic alternate.

Aldero™: A Versatile Sans Serif Font Inspired by Nature

Aldero™ is a versatile sans serif typeface inspired by the resilient Alder tree. Native to British Columbia, Canada, Alder trees are a vital part of the forest, providing food for wildlife and enriching the soil. Its utilitarian nature and role as a go-to resource in its environment inspired us to create Aldero™—a handy, 2-in-1 font family designed to be your most reliable and useful tool. By offering two distinct looks—formal and casual—this typeface is a foundational element that is always ready to adapt to your professional design needs.

Close-up view of Aldero font character curves demonstrating meticulous attention to small design details for high-quality professional use.

We pay attention to even small details of each character that you may not notice at first glance.

Aldero™ Fonts – Double the Looks. Double the Design Possibilities.

To deliver maximum versatility, we built the Aldero typeface to be your dual-purpose solution with double the sets of ligatures. With five weights, ten styles, and over 1,100+ glyphs per style, this two-in-one font family gives you powerful creative control through two distinct personalities:

  • The standard glyph set is perfect for formal, corporate design, lending your project a strong and professional voice.

  • The stylistic alternate set provides a completely different look, eliciting a fun, friendly, and casual feel.

You can utilize each style separately or mix and match them to achieve your unique design aesthetic, ensuring a wide range of design possibilities are always at your fingertips.

Aldero fonts showing a side-by-side comparison of the standard set for formal, corporate design and the stylistic alternate set for a friendly, casual feel.
Aldero typeface demonstration showing the formal and casual styles across regular and italic weights, highlighting different typographic variations.
Animated GIF demonstrating the seamless switching between Aldero's formal and casual looks using OpenType stylistic alternates for a flexible, 2-in-1 typeface.

Switching between the two looks is a breeze. You can even mix and match the standard glyph with the alternate look if you desire.

Aldero font feature overview showing 5 weights, 10 styles, over 1100 glyphs, and the 4 figure sets: Proportional Lining, Proportional Oldstyle, Tabular Lining, and Tabular Oldstyle.
Sample of Aldero glyphs for Roman and Italic styles, showing a range of characters, numbers, and symbols, and highlighting the alternate stylistic glyphs in pink.

Loaded with Features for Professional Use

To deliver even greater versatility, we invested significant effort into loading the Aldero typeface with advanced OpenType features. These features are engineered to directly improve your user experience and streamline your professional workflow.

This comprehensive font family comes with an abundance of features, including:

  • An extensive set of case-sensitive marks, punctuations, and math symbols.

  • Stylistic alternates to activate the 2-in-1 looks.

  • Two sets of ligatures to help you create stunning typographic designs.

We believe you will enjoy the efficiency of working with this typeface as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Demonstration of Aldero's standard and discretionary ligatures, showcasing OpenType features that improve typographic aesthetics and professional workflow.

Aldero font family comes with two extensive sets of standard and discretionary ligatures, standard set and stylistic alternate set.

Aldero font demonstrating case-sensitive marks, punctuation, and math symbols that automatically align to uppercase text, improving professional workflow.

We even thought of small details such as Opentype features for case sensitive marks, punctuations and math symbols to streamline your workflow.

We Crafted Even Small Details Like Bullets and Superscripts.

Aldero comes with 9 bullet options and their case-sensitive alternates. It also features multiple stylistic alternates for marks and symbols so you can streamline your workflow. Crucially, our alternated marks and symbols are designed to visually match their font weight. No more skinny superscripts that don't match the rest of the type! To choose a stylistic alternate, highlight the glyph with the type tool, then select one of the options from the Opentype popup window.

Aldero font showing 9 bullet options, multiple symbol alternates, and correctly weighted superscripts for professional data presentation.

Tabular Figures that Work Across the Board.

Aldero offers two crucial sets of tabular figures: the Linings and the Oldstyles. These figures are engineered to perfectly line up across the entire weight range and, in fact, even across the two figure sets themselves, ensuring clean, professional data presentation.

Aldero font demonstrating lining and oldstyle tabular figures engineered to line up across all weights for clean, professional data presentation.
Aldero font demonstrating extensive multilingual support for over 200 Latin-based languages, including all necessary accents and diacritics.
 
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Explore Aldero Type Specimens

Download the Aldero type specimens for an in-depth look at every weight, style, and OpenType feature in use. This comprehensive PDF specimen allows you to test the formal and casual styles with your own text, helping you make the most informed decision for your professional projects.

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Aldero Type Specimen showing a preview page in English, demonstrating weights, styles, and character set to review.
Aldero Type Specimen page demonstrating multilingual support in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, showing accents and diacritics to review.
Aldero Type Specimen sample page showing a typographic style demonstration of the font's two looks: formal corporate and friendly casual.
Infographic detailing the facts and measurements of the Alder tree, including height, lifespan, and nitrogen supply, as the natural inspiration for the Aldero font design.

Thanks to its clean and legible design, Aldero™ is a marvellous choice for infographic projects.

Aldero sans serif font shown in use on a book cover design for "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," demonstrating its versatility for publishing.
Aldero sans serif font shown in use in a bold editorial book spread design, demonstrating its impact for large-scale typography and print layout.

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Aldero sans serif font demonstrated in a modern logo design on fictitious brand 'Saffron' business cards, showcasing its clean utility for print branding materials.
Aldero sans serif font demonstrated in a modern wayfinding and directional signage system for a building interior, showcasing its clarity and readability for public use.
Aldero sans serif font demonstrated in three tea pouch packaging designs for 'Saffron' brand: Blueberry-Saffron, Pomegranate-Saffron, and Chai-Saffron, showcasing its clean aesthetic for product labels.
Aldero sans serif font demonstrated in a clean website homepage design for Dulgen.com, showcasing its high readability for web, UX, and UI digital application.
Aldero typeface demonstrated on a promotional sign, showcasing its bold clarity and high visibility for retail displays and marketing materials.
Aldero Bold weight typeface demonstrated in two distinct looks—formal and casual—using the word "Sustainable" to showcase the 2-in-1 style versatility.

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