Allium
Occupant Fonts · Cyrus Highsmith · 2017
A calm humanist sans by Cyrus Highsmith, drawn for headline and deck sizes with an unusually broad pan-European character set covering Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.
About
Designed by Cyrus Highsmith and released in 2017, it runs across six weights from Thin to Black, each with a matching italic, giving twelve styles in total. The drawing is quiet and controlled rather than expressive, suited to editorial headline work where legibility across multiple scripts matters. The family extends into Allium Text and Allium Rounded sub-families, and the glyph set includes old-style figures, tabular figures, ligatures and a full range of stylistic alternates.
Classification
Highsmith describes it explicitly as a humanist sans serif; its broad pan-European character set, calm drawing style and headline orientation confirm a humanist classification rather than geometric or grotesque.