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R9 Type+Design is an independent type foundry from Canada. We specialize in modern and contemporary typeface/font designs.

Alio Font Features & Type Specimen

This page shows the overview features of Alio™ Typeface (fonts) from R9 Type+Design.

Alio Pro + Decor Specimen
Alio Text Features
Alio text specimen

Discover Alio™ Font Features.

Alio™: Modern Rounded Sans Serif Meets Decorative Flourish.

Alio™ is a unique rounded display sans serif that masterfully blends modern geometry with decorative flourish. This modular display font family offer a vast array of alternates and ligatures, giving you the creative freedom to design everything from clean, minimalistic projects to intricate, decorative creations. Let your creativity flow, with Alio.

Alio Pro font's partial English alphabet glyph set, showcasing stylistic alternates (red) and distinct roman/italic pairs (blue) for R9 Type+Design.

Alio Pro's English alphabet glyph set. Stylistic alternates are highlighted in red. Distinct roman and their italic pairs are shown in blue.

Meet Alio™: Powerful Packages Built for Any Creative Purpose.

Alio Pro: The Ultimate Creative Toolkit

The most comprehensive package, Alio Pro is your ultimate creative toolkit. It comes with an extensive set of OpenType features and ligatures, making it ideal for creating stunning logos, branding, posters, and unique type treatments. Alio Pro also supports a wide range of Latin-based languages and even Chinese PinYin, making it a truly versatile solution for both print and web. See the complete glyphs here>

Alio Decor: More Than Just a Companion

Alio Decor is designed for creating flourish designs and intricate patterns. It's the perfect way to add a touch of artistic flair to projects like wedding invitations, certificates, or artistic logo designs. See a flourish design example here>

Alio Text: The Workhorse of the Alio Family

This versatile typeface is designed to deliver exceptional readability at any size. It works beautifully as body copy and display type, and everything in between. For optimal legibility and readability at small sizes, we've re-engineered Alio Text with a taller x-height, larger accents, and wider letter spacing. This design makes it the perfect text typeface for long-form content, books, and articles. Like its siblings, Alio Text supports most Latin-based languages and even Chinese PinYin, making it an incredibly versatile solution for a wide range of applications. If you're looking for a go-to font that’s both functional and stylish, Alio Text is for you..

Alio Std: The Essential Package for Modern Designs

This is the simplified package for designers who prefer a clean aesthetic. Alio Std features a core set of glyphs from Alio Pro, making it perfect for web headlines and modern print designs where a simpler look is desired. Alio Std is only available via our vendor’s websites: FontSpring, MyFonts, and Youworkforthem

Alio Font Family Information

  • Alio Pro: 6 weights, 12 styles, 750+ glyphs each

  • Alio Decor: 6 weights, 12 styles, 300+ glyphs each

  • Alio Text: 4 weights / 8 font styles, 500+ glyphs each

  • Alio Std: 6 weights, 12 styles, 400+ glyphs each

Lots of Glyphs. Plenty of Ligatures.

Alio™ Pro covers far beyond the Adobe Latin 3 glyph set, and Alio Decor expands this with over 300 decorative elements, giving you unlimited options to play with. You can kick your styles up a notch with Alio Pro’s extensive set of ligatures—use them on logos, posters, packaging, or social media posts. Check out the complete glyph set here>

Uniquely drawn yet compatible Roman and Italic characters give you an even broader range of design options.

Multiple Stylistic Alternates for Every Accent and Language

Alio™ fonts support a wide variety of Latin-based languages from Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, and many others, including Chinese PinYin. We included stylistic alternates for diacritic characters to ensure comprehensive support for the wide range of Latin-based languages Alio Pro covers. See Alio Pro’s glyph table for details. See Alio Pro’s glyph table for details.>

Built-In UX Design for Designer Convenience

We baked in subtle UX design features, ensuring a wide variety of Alio Decor glyphs line up perfectly with the cap-height, x-height, and baseline, so you can just type, kern, and voila. Additionally, we provide five alternates each (two for Alio Std) of the registered, trade, copyright, published, and service marks, eliminating the need to manually baseline shift the type. 

The Alio font family demonstrates immense versatility using OpenType features (stylistic alternates and ligatures) to easily change the look and style of a pangram sentence.

Transform Your Type with Layered OpenType Features

Remarkable Versatility. The same text is transformed into multiple unique styles by layering Alio’s OpenType features—specifically Ligatures, Discretionary Ligatures, and Stylistic Alternates. This extensive set of options gives you the creative control to achieve the precise look required for any project.

 
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Explore Alio™ Pro + Decor Type Specimens

Explore how you can apply Alio Pro and Decor's wonderfully deep set of OpenType features—from its extensive glyph range and stylistic alternates to its precise ligatures—to your own new projects. Below are just a few examples of the font's versatility, showcasing the full technical range.

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A tall poster of Alio Pro + Decor type specimen showcasing extensive stylistic options, including decorative flourishes, fractions, ligatures, and detailed language support for creative display typography.
Double spread Alio Pro and Decor type specimen design sample, demonstrating versatile display typography and the contrast between the decorative and utilitarian styles.
Creative poster design featuring "Tomayto Tomahto" text, demonstrating the versatile display capabilities of Alio Pro and Alio Std font families.
Alio Pro and Decor type specimen illustrating "Typographic Aficionados' Fascination" using Alio Pro's stylistic alternates and ligature sets, complemented by a decorative wavy pattern created with Alio Decor.
Intricate, ornate pattern featuring bear and heart motifs created entirely using Alio Decor font's decorative flourishes and swirly glyphs.
Creative design showcase demonstrating the visual impact of Alio Pro using layering and transparency to create complex, modern typographic compositions.
Alio Pro and Decor fonts featured in a high-impact packaging design mockup for an Artisan Dijon Mustard label, demonstrating professional application in branding.
Alio font typography featured on a T-shirt design mockup with the phrase "Let your creativity flow," demonstrating application in apparel and merchandising.
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Alio Pro+Decor Features
Alio Pro+Decor Specimen
Alio Text Specimen

Discover Alio™ Text Sans Serif Font Features

Alio™ Text – a Workhorse Typeface

Alio Text not only looks great as a display type, but also has been optimized for the high legibility and readability at small sizes. The Text family features taller x-height, wider letter spacing and more pronounced accents than the Pros. We also cut down from 6 weights/12 styles to 4 weights/8 styles to maximize the weight contrasts in small type.

Visual comparison of Alio Text vs. Alio Pro showing the Text family's taller x-height and larger accents, which are optimized for high legibility and readability at small sizes.
Sample of the Alio Text Latin character set (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) demonstrating some glyphs true italic design.
Alio Text font feature overview showing 500+ glyphs, support for 100+ languages, 4 weights, and 8 styles. The image features the letter 'a' demonstrated across all weights and styles.
Alio Text demonstrating case-sensitive punctuation, which automatically adjusts baseline shift for sentence case, title case, and all caps for improved typographic legibility.

Alio Text has you covered with case-sensitive punctuations, whether your designs call for all caps, title case, sentence case, or all lowercase. Say goodbye to manually adjusting the baseline shift on your punctuation marks.

Alio Text OpenType features demonstrating recognition of true fractions vs. dates and offering three alternate positions for legal symbols for clean, context-sensitive typography.

Alio Text packs robust OpenType features, many of which are shared with its siblings, Alio Pro. For example, both families are equipped to recognize fractions versus dates. Additionally, both feature several alternate legal symbol positions (three in Alio Text; five in Alio Pro).

Showcase of Alio Text's eight distinct bullet styles, providing versatile options for lists, menus, and detailed editorial design for enhanced readability.
 
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Explore Alio™ Text Type Specimen

Explore how you can apply Alio Text's highly legible and robust design—from its optimal x-height to its case-sensitive punctuation—to your own new projects. The specimens below showcase the font's strength and reliability across editorial and long-form content.

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Alio Text Hero Specimen, highlighting its role as a workhorse sans serif typeface with great legibility and readability at small sizes, making it perfect for both text and display use.
Alio Text type specimen showcasing its core features: high legibility and readability, support for Latin-based languages, automatic fractions, and a full set of currency symbols for professional use.
Poster-style type specimen for the Alio Text typeface, showcasing its key design features, weights, and high readability for body copy.
Alio Text pangram typography poster design featuring the phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," illustrated with a French Bulldog (Sir Angus) to showcase display typography options.

Alio Text English Pangram poster design featuring our Recreational Director: Sir Angus of Gastown, the Blue Brindle Frenchie.

Alio Text webfont used in a website design mockup for the "Sidewise" apparel brand, demonstrating superior performance across headline, subhead, and body copy for complete digital typography.
Alio Text font used in an infographic poster design showcasing demographic data (gender, income, age group), demonstrating its clarity for data visualization and professional report design.
Comprehensive specimen poster for Alio Text, displaying its key features: high legibility, case-sensitive punctuation, Latin language support, fraction recognition, and a full alphabet and number set for editorial and display use.
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