Allusion Display: Confident, urban and retro

Written By Antonis Tsagaris

Allusion Display is one of those fonts you have to see in the right context to appreciate.

While I saw it while browsing the Gumroad shop of Barrett Reid-Maroney, I passed it over as somewhat uninteresting and bland. The obvious plot twist is that it’s none of those things, but I think that the example panels failed to make their point.

While the font is presented in a signage-type scenario, with obvious inspiration from metro signs everywhere, the sparseness of the panels doesn’t help bring out the true character of the font which is, as I’ve already said, confident, urban and retro.

Not that my Frasier-opening-credits-aping monstrosity does it any more justice, but I only had five minutes, alright?

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Allusion Display comes in only one weight and has no matching italice BUT! and it’s a big butt, it offers a crapton of ligatures for you to get your filthy hands onto and debase. (Get it? Butt? Crapton? It sounded funny at the time. Ok, full disclosure: no, it didn’t)

Allusion Display costs $15 and can be purchased HERE.



Antonis Tsagaris
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