Electrum

Name: Electrum
Author: Arkandis Digital Foundry

Electrum offers versatile typography with carefully balanced proportions for diverse design applications.

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Slab Serifby Arkandis Digital Foundry89% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Electrum

Best Font Pairings for Electrum

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Electrum, including combinations with Panamera, Cantora One and Genos.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Electrum with any font combination in real-time, optimized for slab serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

Electrum Specimen Gallery

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Electrum Editorial Specimen

Electrum in Editorial Context

Electrum is a slab serif typeface by Arkandis Digital Foundry suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

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Typeface Designer • Slab Serif

Electrum demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a slab serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Electrum supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Arkandis Digital Foundry, Electrum balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Electrum Typography

A slab serif typeface for UI components.

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Electrum Specimen

Electrum

Electrum is a slab serif typeface by Arkandis Digital Foundry built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSlab Serif Typeface

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Electrum

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Electrum— slab serif typeface

ElectrumBy Arkandis Digital Foundry

ElectrumTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Electrum Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Electrum Body Typography

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Electrum, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Electrum demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Electrum for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Electrum small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Electrum delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Electrum italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Electrum bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Electrum typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Electrum typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Electrum'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Electrum in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Electrum:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Electrum:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Electrum';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Electrum:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Using Electrum in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Electrum', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Electrum', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'electrum': ['Electrum', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-electrum">Your text here</p>

About

Understanding Electrum

Arkandis Digital Foundry

Slab Serif

Open Source

Electrum Typeface font is a sport tech square slab-serif by Arkandis Digital Foundry designed for athletic and technology display applications. This comprehensive typeface family delivers energetic character suited for sports branding, technology interfaces, and editorial design requiring active modern authority. Electrum excels in athletic apparel graphics, gaming interfaces, and publication headlines where sport-tech energy projects competitive dynamism. The square proportions add technical precision while family coverage enables practical utility. Designers seeking sport-tech slab-serifs will find Electrum delivers appropriate athletic energy. Works well alongside geometric sans-serifs for cohesive sport-tech design systems.

Electrum was created by Arkandis Digital Foundry. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Slab Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Mechanistic classification, Electrum features unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for data-dense interfaces like dashboards and tables.

Electrum is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Best Ways to Use Electrum

Best Font Pairings for Electrum

Test Electrum Font Pairings Live

In Context

Electrum Typography

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Character Set

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Electrum Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

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Electrum: Accessibility Considerations

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Internationalization

Western European

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