Elektrik

Name: Elektrik
Author: Rob Hindley

Elektrik commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Rob Hindley70% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Elektrik

Best Font Pairings for Elektrik

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Elektrik, including combinations with Ashemark, Aldone and Mohave.

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 Elektrik with any font combination in real-time, optimized for display characteristics.

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

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Elektrik Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Elektrik Specimen

Elektrik

Elektrik is a display typeface by Rob Hindley built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Elektrik

ELEKTRIK

ELEKTRIKTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Elektrik— display typeface

ElektrikBy Rob Hindley

ElektrikTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Elektrik Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Elektrik

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

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

When setting Elektrik 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.

Elektrik 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	Elektrik delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Elektrik italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Elektrik bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Elektrik typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Elektrik typography specimen

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

Quick Start

Adding Elektrik to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Elektrik

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Elektrik', 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        'elektrik': ['Elektrik', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-elektrik">Your text here</p>

About

Elektrik: A Closer Look

Rob Hindley

Display

Open Source

Elektrik font is a bold edgy modern display typeface that combines powerful strokes with electric energy character. The modern construction creates commanding presence with shocking contemporary energy. This edgy bold font works effectively for electric energy branding, edgy modern marketing, shocking product packaging, and electric contemporary content. The bold aesthetic translates to energy signage, electric materials, and modern social media graphics. Designers creating electric content will find Elektrik delivers bold shocking presence. The edgy character adds energy dimension. Pairs well with bold sans-serif fonts for body text.

Elektrik was designed by Rob Hindley. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Elektrik features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks.

Elektrik 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.

Elektrik

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Elektrik

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Elektrik's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Elektrik within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 70). Elektrik delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

Design Heritage

Designed by Rob Hindley. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Elektrik

Elektrik falls within the Graphic typeface, drawn from the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks. TypeSmith features Elektrik in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Elektrik

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Alternatives to Elektrik

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Elektrik based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Elektrik Accessibility Profile

Elektrik achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Elektrik's Legibility

Elektrik draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Elektrik in Context: Readability

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Elektrik: Comfort in Extended Reading

Elektrik provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Elektrik Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Elektrik. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Elektrik at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Design Tips for Elektrik

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Elektrik. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Elektrik in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

Internationalization

Elektrik Multilingual Support

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

This font encodes 74 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for Elektrik

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Elektrik is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Elektrik ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

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

Elektrik

Best Ways to Use Elektrik

Best Font Pairings for Elektrik

Test Elektrik Font Pairings Live

In Context

Elektrik Typography

Elektrik

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Elektrik

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Elektrik Accessibility Profile

Elektrik's Legibility

Elektrik in Context: Readability

Elektrik: Comfort in Extended Reading

Elektrik Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Elektrik

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Elektrik

Best Ways to Use Elektrik

Best Font Pairings for Elektrik

Test Elektrik Font Pairings Live

In Context

Elektrik Typography

Elektrik

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Elektrik

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Elektrik Accessibility Profile

Elektrik's Legibility

Elektrik in Context: Readability

Elektrik: Comfort in Extended Reading

Elektrik Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Elektrik

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference