Eleni – the power girl
Eleni is intended to be nothing less than the perfect Antiqua for body text. As a typesetter, the designer Ekke Wolf has a lot to do with typefaces for substantial books, but also small print. When selecting typefaces for a book, the important thing for him, in addition to the functionality and the variety of available characters and languages, is also whether, with its details, a typeface is restrained and understated or whether it tries to push itself to the fore. He therefore designed Eleni according to the standpoint that its biggest task is to showcase texts, making them pleasant to read. Anyone opening a book which has been typeset using Eleni should, at first glance, be pleased with the attractive typographical design and should not be distracted from the content by the letters while reading.
Warm and congenial in appearance, classic and sober in function, without elaborate nuances or fancy details, Eleni with its moderate contrasts can best be classified as a late humanistic Antiqua.
Eleni is available as upright and italic in 4 line thicknesses as well as in the 2 optical sizes, Regular and Display. At the same time, it is also available as a variable font with the weight and optical size design axes.
Eleni’s origins are the handwritten glyphs of Ermis; however, in terms of optimal legibility, its proportions have been changed to a more compact size. With complete character sets for extended Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Pan-African or the International Phonetical Alphabet, Eleni covers over 90 languages.
During 2025, beta versions of Eleni were used as a text typeface in the first books, and the typeface was greeted enthusiastically by publishers without being prompted. The space between two book covers is therefore its natural habitat. However, it would be too short-sighted to restrict Eleni to this noble task, as it also cuts a very fine figure onscreen.
Design: Ekke Wolf
Test Fonts
Font Packages
Languages
International Phonetical Alphabet (IPA)
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Chechen
Macedonian
Russian
Serbian
Ukrainian
Greek
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Asu
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Bemba
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Danish
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Ganda
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Gusii
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Inari Sami
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Irish
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Jola-Fonyi
Kabuverdianu
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Lithuanian
Lower Sorbian
Luo
Luxembourgish
Luyia
Machame
Makhuwa-Meetto
Makonde
Malagasy
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Manx
Morisien
Northern Sami
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Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Nyankole
Oromo
Polish
Portuguese
Quechua
Romanian
Romansh
Rombo
Rundi
Rwa
Samburu
Sango
Sangu
Scottish Gaelic
Sena
Serbian
Shambala
Shona
Slovak
Soga
Somali
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Swiss German
Taita
Teso
Turkish
Upper Sorbian
Uzbek (Latin)
Volapük
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