Abolition Font

Abolition is a Fort Foundry sans serif designed by Mattox Shuler. The publisher lists Regular, Lines, Soft, Round and Rough treatments with corresponding obliques. These related treatments provide different surfaces and edge details within the family.

Read the publisher’s family page for the source account and the edition currently offered. Keep a family name distinct from its particular release, width or optical branch.

Compare the treatment as well as the slant. Lines and Rough can change the way a word reads at small size, while the publisher also demonstrates figures and fractions. Inspect the characters required for your particular number-heavy or headline layout.

Use the original publisher specimen to inspect those features. An alternative can share a broad role without having the same letter shapes, metrics or character coverage.

Test a compact event title, ticket number and short directional label. Compare the plain and decorative treatments at the same width. Keep essential small information clear before adding a rough or lined surface for atmosphere.

For independent comparisons, try Anton and Bebas Neue. Use the same wording and approximate output size. The related style guide provides broader design context.

Use Fort Foundry to try the original and investigate the files, styles and terms for your intended workflow. This site does not distribute or serve Abolition font software.

The editable alternatives here have their own source profiles and included licenses. For the difference between a font file and copied characters, read Unicode text versus fonts.