Alata
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
Uppercase
Lowercase
Numerals
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Package Manager
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1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/alata 2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Alata", sans-serif;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* Please select at least one weight and style */ Background & Story
Alata is a geometric low contrast sans design.
It can feel monumental, serious and archaic and occasionally eccentric. It draws inspiration from both Early 20th C poster lettering and epigraphic Greek mono line letters. Curiously the capitals letters draw influence from UK Lettering while in contrast the lower case is more 'continental' or European in character. Alata offers a wide range of figures including oldstyle figures, small numbers including superiors and fractions. Alata also offers case sensitive forms.
Alata is an original typeface designed by Spyros Zevelakis. . Eben Sorkin expanded the language support and refined the design in 2018.
Alata is published by Sorkin Type .
To contribute, see Alata GitHub
Tags & Moods
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource/alata Designed by
Spyros Zevelakis, Eben Sorkin
Links
License
OFL-1.1