Elsie

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Elsie Regular
• Black 900Elsie Black

About Elsie

Elsie is a display serif with strong contrast between thick vertical stems and hairline connecting strokes and serifs. What sets it apart in the specimen is the ornament borrowed from italic writing: ball terminals that curl into small loops on a, c, f, j, r and y, a looped arm on the k, rounded v and w, and a Q with a waved tail. Numerals are old-style figures that rise and fall around the x-height. The official notes describe the theme as femininity, glamour and fashion. Elsie has two styles, Regular and Black, and the notes call the Black suitable for large display use. Each font has 302 glyphs and covers basic Latin with Western European accents. Alejandro Inler developed the typeface in conjunction with Ana Sanfelippo; a separate Swash Caps family also exists.

Where Elsie works

Fashion and beauty headlines

Hairline serifs and curled terminals were drawn with fashion and glamour in mind, according to the designer's notes.

Magazine covers and openers

The Black weight gives a masthead or opening word heavy stems while keeping the thin hairlines.

Boutique and cosmetics branding

A short name in Regular shows the looped k and curled r, c and y as built-in ornament.

Invitations and menus

Old-style figures sit comfortably beside lowercase in dates and prices.

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
• Estonian

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

License

Fonts that pair with Elsie

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 Elsie 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.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Elsie";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Elsie-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Elsie";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Elsie-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Elsie:wght@400;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Hairlines need size

The thinnest strokes are hairlines, so Elsie is drawn for display sizes; the official notes describe the Black as a large-size weight.

Regular and Black only

There is no weight between 400 and 900 and no italic.

Western European Latin

The 302 glyphs cover basic Latin with Western European accents; the Latin Extended set is incomplete.

FAQs

Collections with Elsie

• High-contrast Didone fonts for fashion and editorial headlines

  Modern-face serifs with hairline serifs and vertical stress: the look of fashion mastheads, beauty packaging and magazine covers.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All display fonts