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Abril Fatface

A free alternative to Bodoni.

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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About Abril Fatface

Designer: TypeTogether
Released: 2011
Available at: Google Fonts →
Featured on: 1 paid font page

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Abril Fatface is also a free alternative to…

Bodoni → Heavy-weight Didone display serif inspired by 19th-century British and Spanish poster types. Higher weight than Bodoni's standard cuts but the same vertical-stress / high-contrast DNA — the right pick when the headline needs to shout.

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Display + body that work together

Quiet type that does the work

Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.

Editorial · Modern Abril Fatface + Inter

A grammar of empty space

Body type does the heavy lifting. Get it right and the reader never thinks about it; get it wrong and they feel it before they can name what is off.

Modern · Editorial Switzer + Abril Fatface

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