Ephesis

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Ephesis Regular

About Ephesis

Ephesis is a script typeface written with a thin, flexible line. In the specimen the capitals dominate: E and A begin with a broad horizontal sweep that reaches far to the left, and letters such as L, Q and Z end in long flourishes. The lowercase is much smaller, strongly slanted and only lightly joined, with tall ascenders and a compact body, so words have a quick, written rhythm. Stroke contrast is modest and the overall colour is light. The official notes present Ephesis as a contemporary script for casual invitations, cards and scrapbooking, with Latin character sets for Western and Central European languages and Vietnamese. Robert Leuschke is the designer; the name table reads Robert E. Leuschke. There is one Regular style with 616 glyphs, and the font is not variable. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Ephesis works

Casual invitations

The notes name invitations as an intended use, and the sweeping capitals give a host's name an opening flourish.

Greeting cards

A short phrase in the slanted lowercase reads like a quick line written with a fine pen.

Scrapbook titles

Light strokes sit over photographs and patterned paper without covering them.

Signature-style logos

One capital followed by a few lowercase letters produces a wordmark that looks signed.

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

Fonts that pair with Ephesis

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 Ephesis 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: "Ephesis";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Ephesis-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Ephesis", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Ephesis 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=Ephesis&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Capitals take up room

Several capitals extend well to the left and right of their body, so they need space at the start of a line.

Small lowercase

The lowercase is short compared with the capitals; set the font large for it to remain legible.

One style

Ephesis has Regular 400 only.

FAQs

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