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Anek Latin

A variable sans serif with weight and width axes, the Latin member of Ek Type's ten-script Anek family.

Sans Serif 8 styles · variable by Ek Type OFL

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Anek Latin is a sans serif family by Ek Type, the Latin member of the Anek project. Anek Latin is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 800 and a width axis from 75 to 125, with eight named weights. Anek Latin is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and serves interfaces, branding and headlines.

Anek Latin font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Ek Type
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
8 8 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–800, Width 75–125
Glyphs
778
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.003
Used for
HeadlinesInterfacesBranding

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Anek Latin

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Anek Latin; the download contains the complete files.

Anek Latin font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Anek Latin specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Anek Latin Thin
  • ExtraLight 200Anek Latin ExtraLight
  • Light 300Anek Latin Light
  • Regular 400Anek Latin Regular
  • Medium 500Anek Latin Medium
  • SemiBold 600Anek Latin SemiBold
  • Bold 700Anek Latin Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Anek Latin ExtraBold

Anek Latin is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Anek Latin

Anek Latin is a sans serif family and the Latin part of Anek, a project by the Mumbai collective Ek Type that spans ten scripts drawn from a shared pool of visual features. Its letters are compact and upright, with squarish curves, flat stroke endings and a tall lowercase; at the default width they are fairly narrow. Two variable axes shape the family: weight from 100 to 800, with eight named weights from Thin to ExtraBold, and width from 75 to 125, which moves the design from condensed to expanded. There is no italic. According to the official description, the heaviest weights bring out sharp terminals and tapered joins intended for headlines and wordmarks. The 778 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. The project notes credit Yesha Goshar with Anek Latin, and the family is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Anek Latin works

Responsive headlines
The width axis, 75 to 125, lets a headline narrow to fit a phone column or widen on a desktop layout without a change of family.
Interface text
Named weights from Thin 100 to ExtraBold 800 give fine steps for labels, body copy and emphasis.
Wordmarks
The boldest weights, with sharp terminals and tapered joins, were drawn with wordmarks and headlines in mind.
Multi-script brand systems
Anek exists for ten scripts, so a brand using Anek Latin can match it with the sibling family for an Indian script.
Dense tables and cards
At width 75 the condensed forms fit long labels into table headers and narrow cards.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 778 glyphs.

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic
  • Catalan
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian
  • Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2021 The Anek Project Authors (https://github.com/EkType/Anek)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Anek Latin

Alegreya Serif

Anek Latin is sans serif and Alegreya is serif (6 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Antic Slab Slab Serif

Anek Latin is sans serif and Antic Slab is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Azeret Mono Monospace

Azeret Mono is a monospace family (9 weights) for code and figures next to Anek Latin as the text face.

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Anek Latin on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Anek Latin";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AnekLatin-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Anek Latin", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Anek Latin with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Two axes
Weight runs from 100 to 800 and width from 75 to 125. Both can be set to any value in between.
Default weight is 500
The variable font opens at Medium 500; set 400 explicitly to get Regular.
No italic
Anek Latin is upright only. Width and weight are its means of contrast.
One variable file
The package holds the variable font. Static instances are available from the official source.

FAQs

Is Anek Latin free for commercial use?

Yes. Anek Latin is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution are permitted; the fonts cannot be sold by themselves, and derivatives remain under the same license.

Who designed Anek Latin?

Anek Latin is credited to Ek Type, a collective of type designers in Mumbai. The font's name table and the project notes name Yesha Goshar for the Latin.

How many weights does Anek Latin have?

Anek Latin has eight named weights, from Thin 100 to ExtraBold 800, and any value between them can be set on the weight axis.

Is Anek Latin a variable font?

Yes. Anek Latin is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 800 and a width axis from 75 to 125.

Which languages does Anek Latin support?

Anek Latin includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese.

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