Postale

by Dear Alison
Individual Styles from $24.00 USD
Complete family of 4 fonts: $60.00 USD
The Postale Font Family was designed by Alison Argento and published by Dear Alison. Postale contains 4 styles and family package options.

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Postale A Dear Alison type family There’s something timeless about the lettering found on travel ephemera — railway placards, post office facades, luggage tags, stamped envelopes that crossed oceans decades ago. Postale was inspired by that era of confident, geometric sans-serif signage — when travel felt glamorous, destinations felt distant, and typography carried both clarity and charm. The family balances soft geometric curves with a narrow, slightly elongated structure, giving it a refined vertical rhythm reminiscent of vintage European transport graphics. It feels equally at home on a railway timetable, a café awning, a travel poster, or modern branding that nods to the past without living in it. Stylistic Alternates allow certain retro-leaning letterforms to shift into more contemporary sans-serif constructions, giving you control over how nostalgic — or how modern — the voice becomes. Postale is about movement. It’s about correspondence. It’s about destinations, departures, and the quiet romance of arrival. A vintage travel-inspired geometric sans family, designed for both memory and momentum.

Designers: Alison Argento

Publisher: Dear Alison

Foundry: Dear Alison

Design Owner: Dear Alison

MyFonts debut: Feb 29, 2020

Postale

About Dear Alison

Dear Alison is the creation of Alison Argento, a travel writer based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Although her work dictates that she spend most of her time typing and editing at the computer keyboard, she prefers the traditional look and feel of handwritten letters and the freehand lettering arts along with the look of vintage type. Dear Alison fonts are meant to bring the handcrafted feel of personal correspondence to the digital age.

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