Ablati: a unilateral serif font for text & display

Ablati is the commercial release of the font designed during the production of our new font design book, "Practical Font Design". It is a new serif font in my continuing objective of designing book fonts that I can really use. In many ways, Ablati is a very different direction for me. Designed to produce graphics to use in the font design book, I was forced to really reconsider many of my working methods to make them work for outside readership. Like all designers, my internal design processes can get really sloppy. The book helped me clean up my act.

Taking my inspiration from one of my favorite fonts of all time {though I've never reallybeen able to use it much}, Romic, by Colin at Letraset, I decided to design a unilateral serif font.

Being tired of the italics I've been doing, I took my inspiration from the headlines from several of the articles in a 1929 Woman's World magazine. It is a loose, freehand translation of what I saw there. I think it has a really nice look to go with Ablati. It only has a 3% angle instead of the normal 12-14%. The little flip on top of the lowercase makes the unilateral argument for me. I like it, I hope you do. If so buy it below.

In most ways, these are normal serif fonts for me in that they have caps, lowercase, small caps with the appropriate figures for each case. This font has all the OpenType features in the new set developed for the book. There are several ligatures for your fun and enjoyment: bb gg ff fi fl ffi ffl ffy fj ft tt ty Wh Th and more. Several alternative forms, a dozen ornaments, and more. Like all of my fonts, there are: caps, lowercase, small caps, proportional lining figures, proportional oldstyle figures, & small cap figures, plus numerators, denominators, superiors, inferiors, and a complete set of ordinals 1st through infinity. Enjoy!

Use the button below to buy either font individually or the 2-font family.

Pricing

Individual Font $24.95 2-font Family $36.00 4-font Family $49.00 6-font Family $77.00 8-font Family $99.00

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