Anton

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Anton Regular

About Anton

Anton is a display sans serif with very heavy strokes packed into narrow letters. Round letters have straight vertical sides, the gaps inside a, e and s are small slits, and the lowercase rises to most of the capital height, so a line of Anton forms a dense, even band. The official description explains that the letterforms were digitised from a traditional advertising sans and then adapted for browsers, with the counters opened slightly and the stems tuned for bold display setting. Anton has one style. The file is labelled Regular 400 although the design is as dark as a heavy bold; no lighter weight or italic exists in this family. Its 1,326 glyphs cover the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets, and the description adds African Latin. Vernon Adams designed Anton, which is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Anton works

Web banners and hero headlines

Anton was reshaped specifically as a web font for bold display setting, with counters opened for screen rendering.

Posters and protest signs

Tall, narrow, heavy letters put the largest possible word into a given width.

Video thumbnails and social graphics

A few words in Anton stay legible when an image is shrunk to a small preview.

Sports and news graphics

Dense capitals and matching heavy numerals suit scores, dates and breaking-news straps.

Headlines in Vietnamese and Central European languages

The 1,326 glyphs include full Vietnamese and the accents of Polish, Czech and Turkish.

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
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Anton

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 Anton 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: "Anton";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Anton-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Anton 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=Anton&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Regular means heavy here

The single file reports weight 400. Requesting bold in CSS adds synthetic weight to an already heavy face.

For other weights, see Antonio

Anton itself has one weight; the related Antonio family carries the design from Thin to Bold.

No Cyrillic or Greek

Coverage is Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Collections with Anton

• 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.

• Heavy fonts for thumbnails and social graphics

  Very heavy, compact display fonts that stay readable on a video thumbnail, a story or a feed image seen at a few centimeters wide.

• Condensed fonts for headlines

  Narrow sans-serif and serif display fonts that set tall, compact headlines in limited width, from hairline to heavy.

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