“Liebelei”

dalliance, flirtation, hanky-panky; kind of diminutive of “Liebe” (German for love)

The typeface Liebelei has its roots back in 1933, when Vienna-based painter Rudolf Vogl created the poster for a movie called Liebelei after the popular play by Arthur Schnitzler. Only the title letters existed of that typeface. I loved the letters from first sight and proceeded by adventurously interpreting the missing characters.
The goal was to create letterforms that fit to the original from the 1930s and represent a modern multi-purpose font. It should be an easy-to-use italic font with warm and friendly details and a huge variety of alternates and languages. The characteristic curled ends of most letters provide a script touch to the Liebelei. The first font entirely designed was the black one which corresponds to the original poster lettering, although I tweaked the proportions a tiny bit to a more contemporary shape.
Liebelei covers Western, Central European, and Central Eastern European Languages and contains also complete Cyrillic and Greek character sets. Liebelei is best for poster design as well as detailed usage, for example handsome tables, since it supports small caps, different kinds of numerals and fractions.

Design: Ekke Wolf

Test Fonts

Weight (wght): 400
Italic (ital): 5
Weight (wght): 400
Italic (ital): 5
Weight (wght): 400
Italic (ital): 5

Font Packages

Liebelei Pro Complete Pack (20 fonts)

Liebelei Pro Normal Pack (10 fonts)

Liebelei Pro Unicase Pack (10 fonts)

Liebelei Pro Variable Font

Liebelei Pro Normal Variable Font

Liebelei Pro Unicase Variable Font

Liebelei Pro Light

Liebelei Pro Light Italic

Liebelei Pro Unicase Light

Liebelei Pro Unicase Light Italic

Liebelei Pro Regular

Liebelei Pro Regular Italic

Liebelei Pro Unicase Regular

Liebelei Pro Unicase Regular Italic

Liebelei Pro Medium

Liebelei Pro Medium Italic

Liebelei Pro Unicase Medium

Liebelei Pro Unicase Medium Italic

Liebelei Pro Bold

Liebelei Pro Bold Italic

Liebelei Pro Unicase Bold

Liebelei Pro Unicase Bold Italic

Liebelei Pro Black

Liebelei Pro Black Italic

Liebelei Pro Unicase Black

Liebelei Pro Unicase Black Italic

Languages

Belarusian (Cyrillic)
Bosnian (Cyrillic)
Bulgarian (Cyrillic)
Chechen (Cyrillic)
Macedonian (Cyrillic)
Ossetic (Cyrillic)
Russian (Cyrillic)
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Ukrainian (Cyrillic)
Uzbek (Cyrillic)
Greek (Greek)
Afrikaans (Latin)
Aghem (Latin)
Akan (Latin)
Albanian (Latin)
Asturian (Latin)
Asu (Latin)
Bafia (Latin)
Basaa (Latin)
Basque (Latin)
Bemba (Latin)
Bena (Latin)
Breton (Latin)
Catalan (Latin)
Chiga (Latin)
Colognian (Latin)
Cornish (Latin)
Croatian (Latin)
Czech (Latin)
Danish (Latin)
Dutch (Latin)
Embu (Latin)
English (Latin)
Esperanto (Latin)
Estonian (Latin)
Ewondo (Latin)
Faroese (Latin)
Filipino (Latin)
Finnish (Latin)
French (Latin)
Friulian (Latin)
Fulah (Latin)
Galician (Latin)
Ganda (Latin)
German (Latin)
Gusii (Latin)
Hawaiian (Latin)
Hungarian (Latin)
Icelandic (Latin)
Inari Sami (Latin)
Indonesian (Latin)
Irish (Latin)
Italian (Latin)
Jola-Fonyi (Latin)
Kabuverdianu (Latin)
Kako (Latin)
Kalaallisut (Latin)
Kalenjin (Latin)
Kamba (Latin)
Kikuyu (Latin)
Kinyarwanda (Latin)
Koyraboro Senni (Latin)
Koyra Chiini (Latin)
Kwasio (Latin)
Lakota (Latin)
Langi (Latin)
Latvian (Latin)
Lingala (Latin)
Lithuanian (Latin)
Lower Sorbian (Latin)
Luba-Katanga (Latin)
Luo (Latin)
Luxembourgish (Latin)
Luyia (Latin)
Machame (Latin)
Makhuwa-Meetto (Latin)
Makonde (Latin)
Malagasy (Latin)
Maltese (Latin)
Manx (Latin)
Masai (Latin)
Meru (Latin)
Metaʼ (Latin)
Morisyen (Latin)
Nama (Latin)
Ngiemboon (Latin)
Northern Sami (Latin)
North Ndebele (Latin)
Norwegian Bokmål (Latin)
Norwegian Nynorsk (Latin)
Nuer (Latin)
Nyankole (Latin)
Oromo (Latin)
Polish (Latin)
Portuguese (Latin)
Prussian (Latin)
Quechua (Latin)
Romanian (Latin)
Romansh (Latin)
Rombo (Latin)
Rundi (Latin)
Rwa (Latin)
Samburu (Latin)
Sango (Latin)
Sangu (Latin)
Scottish Gaelic (Latin)
Sena (Latin)
Serbian (Latin)
Shambala (Latin)
Shona (Latin)
Slovak (Latin)
Slovenian (Latin)
Soga (Latin)
Somali (Latin)
Spanish (Latin)
Swahili (Latin)
Swedish (Latin)
Swiss German (Latin)
Taita (Latin)
Tasawaq (Latin)
Teso (Latin)
Tongan (Latin)
Turkish (Latin)
Upper Sorbian (Latin)
Uzbek (Latin)
Vai (Latin)
Volapük (Latin)
Vunjo (Latin)
Walser (Latin)
Welsh (Latin)
Western Frisian (Latin)
Yangben (Latin)
Yoruba (Latin)
Zarma (Latin)
Zulu (Latin)