Abril Fatface

Try Abril Fatface

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Abril Fatface Regular

About Abril Fatface

Abril Fatface is a heavy display serif in the Didone manner: thick vertical stems, hairline serifs and joins, and ball terminals on letters such as a, c, f, r and y. The official description traces the design to the heavy titling faces of British and French advertising posters in the nineteenth century. It is one cut of Abril, a larger family by TypeTogether that, according to the same source, counts eighteen cuts for display and text; only the Fatface is distributed here. The font has a single style at weight 400, although the letters are far darker than that number suggests, and it is not a variable font. Its 407 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended subsets, including the letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech and Hungarian. Veronika Burian and José Scaglione designed it, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Abril Fatface works

Magazine and blog headlines

Thick stems against hairline serifs give a title strong presence at large sizes, the job the titling weights of Abril were drawn for.

Posters and event announcements

The design looks back to nineteenth-century advertising posters, and a few large words carry a whole sheet.

Book covers and title pages

Ball terminals and fine serifs give a short title a literary, printed character.

Pull quotes and drop caps

One heavy style contrasts sharply with a lighter text face when a phrase or initial has to stand out.

Labels and packaging names

A product name set in the 407-glyph Latin Extended set can carry accents for most European markets.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Abril Fatface

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Abril Fatface on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Abril Fatface";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AbrilFatface-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Abril Fatface", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Abril Fatface with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Abril+Fatface&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One cut of a bigger family

Only the Fatface is open-licensed and included here. The other weights of Abril are offered separately by TypeTogether.

Hairlines need size

Serifs and joins are hairlines beside very thick stems; in the small sample line of the specimen they are already close to disappearing.

No italic and no second weight

Abril Fatface is a single Regular file without italic, Cyrillic, Greek or Vietnamese.

FAQs

Collections with Abril Fatface

• Bold fonts for posters and big headlines

  Heavy and condensed open-license display fonts that hold a sheet from across the room: gothics, slabs, fat faces and stencils.

• Fonts that support Turkish

  Open-license families that contain every letter of the Turkish alphabet, including dotted and dotless i, across text, display and script styles.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All display fonts