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Description

Emmeline is a natural handwritten typeface rooted in memory, correspondence, and the quiet emotion carried by personal letters.


The design was inspired by a bundle of handwritten letters from my younger sister during her college years. Seeing that handwriting again brought back an unexpected flood of memory — a reminder that letterforms can preserve a moment long after the paper has been folded away.


Emmeline keeps that feeling intact. Its tall, expressive forms, gentle inconsistencies, and casual rhythm give it warmth without losing clarity. It feels personal and handmade, but still composed enough for real design use.


OpenType ligature features automatically alternate select characters as you type, helping repeated letters feel more natural and less mechanical. This gives Emmeline a more authentic handwritten texture in words, notes, headlines, and short passages.


Use Emmeline for stationery, greeting cards, journaling projects, classroom materials, packaging, social graphics, personal branding, quotes, and designs that need sincerity over polish.

Type Designer

Dear Alison

Dear Alison is a type foundry devoted to expressive typefaces with warmth, charm, and character. Inspired by handwritten letters, old journals, vintage ephemera, personal keepsakes, and the emotional texture of printed things, the collection explores fonts that feel human rather than mechanical.

The Dear Alison library includes graceful scripts, casual handwriting, romantic brush lettering, nostalgic display faces, warm serifs, and typewriter-inspired designs. Some are refined and elegant; others are loose, imperfect, or full of everyday personality. Together, they are made for designers who want type with voice, memory, and feeling.

Dear Alison fonts are well suited for stationery, greeting cards, packaging, book covers, invitations, branding, journals, labels, quotes, and social graphics. They are designed for words that should feel written, remembered, saved, or shared.

Licensing Information
The full Adobe Fonts library is cleared for both personal and commercial use.

As with everything from Adobe Fonts, you can use these fonts for:

Design Projects

Create images or vector artwork, including logos

Website Publishing

Create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website

PDFs

Embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing

Video and Broadcast

Use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content

And more…

Visit the Adobe Fonts Licensing  FAQ for full details

Visit Dear Alison to purchase additional licensing and services, including:
Mobile Apps: Embed fonts in your app UI
Self Hosting: Host web font files on your own server
Custom Services: Request modifications or bespoke fonts directly from the foundry
Volume licensing: Use the fonts across your whole organization
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How to Use

You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.

Desktop

In application font menus, this font will display:

{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}

Web

To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:


font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
        

Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters

Fonts in the Adobe Fonts library include support for many different languages, OpenType features, and typographic styles.

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