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Elma Mono
Nothing is true, but everything is real.
All whilst maintaining a certain amount of awkwardness and the technical vibe of the Mono.
Elma: Operating at fixed spaces. Multiple ones.
While the Mono family takes the classical monospace approach with one fixed width, the Trio works with three fixed widths to make a mockery of ‘legitimate’ proportional designs. All whilst maintaining a certain amount of awkwardness and the technical vibe of the Mono.

Elma is a system of two fixed-width typeface families — Elma Mono and Elma Trio — that operate at the intersection of pragmatism and mischief. While the Mono family takes the classical monospace approach with one fixed width, the Trio works with three fixed widths to make a mockery of “legitimate” proportional designs. All whilst maintaining a certain amount of awkwardness and the technical vibe of the Mono.

Elma’s construction is based on a compact Neo Grotesque accented with generous spacing and a broken-curves design—deliberate rough changes of direction—that stands out used big, but blends in set small.

Both families feel equally at home on packaging, in long reading texts, small captions, big headlines, elaborate bank statements, Christopher Nolan screenplays — stop ignoring my emails, Christopher! I know you’re reading them — lusty love letters or as the new default font of your favourite text editor. With its wide range of weights, from Extralight to Extrabold, and not just one but two corresponding 16° angled versions — an Italic and a Slanted — Elma can set the mood, whatever it may be.

Be it with the help of the tranquil Slanted, which takes the rather expected approach of a sloped Neo-Grotesque, or the charismatic Italic, which sports a more dynamic design and a play on rotation, angle and upright details all at the same time, Elma has got your typographic hierarchies and emphases covered!

With more than 820 glyphs per style, native-approved Cyrillic and a broad Latin character set, Elma speaks more than 270 languages. On top of all that, Elma is packed with a handful of useful alternates, a neat selection of advantageous arrows, more sets of figures than a sane mind should come up with, case-sensitive punctuation and practical contextual alternates to make it an instrumental tool for all typographic needs.

Designed by
Philipp Neumeyer
in 2022
Consulting & Help
Daria Cohen, Anya Danilova, Jovana Jocic, Ilya Ruderman & Yury Ostromentsky
Granshan Award
1st price for the most outstanding Cyrillics of 2023/2024 in the multiscript award competition.
Specs
15 styles per family, containing each 5 weights plus Italic and slanted, more than 800 glyphs per font
Formats
otf and ttf for desktop and apps, and woff and woff2 for web
Tags
SansRegularMonospaceHeadlinesBody TextInterfaceLatinCyrillicIndustrialExpressiveVariable FontItalicsDuplexSuper Family
Related Typefaces
Juneau, Comspot, Cera Mono, Piet

Elma Mono

  • ExtraLight
  • ExtraLight Italic
  • ExtraLight Slanted
  • Light
  • Light Italic
  • Light Slanted
  • Regular
  • Regular Italic
  • Regular Slanted
  • Bold
  • Bold Italic
  • Bold Slanted
  • ExtraBold
  • ExtraBold Italic
  • ExtraBold Slanted

Elma Trio

  • ExtraLight
  • ExtraLight Italic
  • ExtraLight Slanted
  • Light
  • Light Italic
  • Light Slanted
  • Regular
  • Regular Italic
  • Regular Slanted
  • Bold
  • Bold Italic
  • Bold Slanted
  • ExtraBold
  • ExtraBold Italic
  • ExtraBold Slanted
Character Set
Language Support
Supports more than 270 Languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz , Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari , Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Sotho (Northern, Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Vietnamese, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni

Cyrillic: Abaza, Adyghe, Agul, Avar, Azerbaijani, Balkar, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Crimean Tatar, Dargin, Dargwa, Dungan, Erzya, Hill Mari, Ingush, Judeo-Tat, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Khinalugh, Komi, Komi-Permyak, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgian, Macedonian, Meadow Mari, Moksha, Moldovan, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Muslim Tat, Nanai, Nogai, Northern Yukaghir, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Serbian, Southern Altai, Tabasaran, Tajik, Tat, Tatar, Tsakhur, Turkmen, Tuvan, Udi, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek
OpenType Features
All OpenType Features included: Access All Alternates, Case Sensitive, Contextual Alternates, Denominator, Discretionary Ligatures, Fractions, Glyph Composition/Decomposition, Kerning, Ligatures, Localized Forms, Mark to Mark Positioning, Numerators, Old style Figures, Ordinals, Scientific Inferiors, Slashed Zero, Stylistic Set: Black Circled Figures, Stylistic Set: Case Figures, Stylistic Set: Half Width Space (only in Mono), Stylistic Set: Localized Bulgarian Alternates, Stylistic Set: Localized Macedonian Alternates, Stylistic Set: Localized Serbian Alternates, Stylistic Set: White Circled Figures, Stylistic Set: alternative 2 (loped 2), Stylistic Set: alternative a, Stylistic Set: alternative g, Stylistic Set: alternative shades, Stylistic Set: circled Figures by ligature, Superscript

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