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Abadal

by Tipo Pèpel
Individual Styles from $24.00 USD
Complete family of 50 fonts: $99.00 USD
The Abadal Font Family was designed by Josep Patau and published by Tipo Pèpel. Abadal contains 50 styles and family package options. More about this family

About the family


Abadal – A Tribute to Catalan Typographic Heritage

Type design often appears to present limits that are impossible to surpass—until a path is opened. This is the case with Abadal, a tribute to the pioneering Catalan family of automobile builders, whose name also placed them first in alphabetical order throughout school. Their legacy now inspires a typeface destined to become a favorite in text design. For those familiar with my work, the family’s ancestry and origin will be immediately recognizable.

Abadal features three variable axes—weight, optical size, and finial—allowing precise control over typographic color and structure. Recreating the exact weight or achieving the perfect balance in your text block becomes effortless. Special attention has been given to the ability to accentuate or soften the top contrast, offering flexibility for subtle refinement or pronounced emphasis, catering to the most discerning typographic connoisseurs.

Adjusting the optical size ensures consistent text density across different point sizes—a refinement once considered lost with the end of the lead type era, now revived for the pleasure of the finest typographic enthusiasts.

As with all our typefaces, Abadal comes equipped with a comprehensive range of OpenType features, including small caps, initials, numerals, fractions, denominators, and much more.

Discover Abadal: your indispensable companion in text design and layout.

Designers: Josep Patau

Foundry: Tipo Pèpel

MyFonts debut: Sep 24, 2025

Abadal

About Tipo Pèpel

Located in a small town, Les Borges Blanques, Spain, Tipo Pèpel is a digital type foundry run by Josep Patau. The self-taught designer began producing experimental typefaces in 1996 and started selling them through MyFonts in 2011. His debut font, Anduaga, was a revival from Joseph de Anduaga y Garimberti, the XVII´s famous spanish calligrapher. Since then, his library had expanded to include nearly two dozen font families, each of which is unique and reflects the small country town he comes from with a familiar rural feel. Some of Josep’s best selling typefaces, including Pobla, Bridone, and Cinta, really demonstrate the impact his home has on his designs, while Boxed, a semi-modular geometric font, is a step outside of this theme. “All of my projects excite me and I put my best into each of them, doing everything with my own two hands,” Josep says. “I treat them all like my children.” With a focus on the details and creating high quality drawings, each of his fonts offers an extended character map that is fully capable with OpenType features. He also diligently insures that each of his typefaces is legible in all sizes. “I think that this is one of my goals because I always begin my designs by thinking about the final use if the font,” he says. “I worry about this a lot, so I do thousands of tests before launching the final font to ensure high quality standards and full satisfaction for final users.”

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