Abril Fatface
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Free Bodoni Poster alternatives
The display weight of Bodoni, drawn for the sizes where the hairlines can be as thin as the printing will allow.
Why people look for a Bodoni Poster alternative
Bodoni Poster is the display weight, drawn so heavy that the hairlines become slivers and the whole thing only works very large. It is licensed separately from the text weights, and it is the one people picture when they say Bodoni — the fashion masthead rather than the book page.
What a Bodoni Poster substitute has to get right
Contrast pushed past what a text face could survive. This is the one place where a hairline that vanishes at 14px is the correct behaviour rather than a fault.
The one in this archive
One entry, because one is the honest answer. A face is listed here only if the substitution would survive a designer looking at both.
Bodoni Poster and its free alternatives, at a glance
- How you get it
- Bought from a foundry under a commercial licence
- Pass it on, embed it or self-host it
- Only as the licence you bought allows
- On a website
- Usually a separate web licence on top
Bodoni Poster
| Property | Abril Fatface |
|---|---|
| Licence | OFL-1.1 — free, commercial use allowed |
| Weights | 400 |
| Variable | No |
| Italic | No |
| Türkçe | Yes |
| Other alphabets | Latin only |
| Glyphs | 425 |
| Web font | 20 KB |
Questions
- What is the best free alternative to Bodoni Poster?
- Abril Fatface — it is the closest match in this archive, and the page above says which shapes the substitution turns on. It is the only one listed, because one honest match is a better answer than a longer list of near misses.
- Are these Bodoni Poster alternatives free for commercial use?
- Yes. Every font on this site is under a licence that permits commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement, mostly the SIL Open Font License. That covers paid client work, products you sell, self-hosting on a website, and embedding in an application. The licence file is inside every download.
- Can I use a Bodoni Poster alternative in a logo?
- Yes. An open font licence covers the font software rather than the shapes you set with it, so a logo made with one of these can be trademarked like any other. What you cannot do is claim rights over the typeface itself.
- Will a Bodoni Poster substitute keep my layout the same?
- Only if it is metrically compatible — drawn so every character occupies the same width as the original, which makes a document reflow identically. Very few faces are, and where one is, this site says so on its page. Everything else will look similar and set differently, so a layout built to the original's widths needs checking rather than assuming.