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St Elbrus

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

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Displayby Alexander Shimanov60% Accessible
Characters512
Glyphs614
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use St Elbrus

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Best Font Pairings for St Elbrus

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for St Elbrus, including combinations with New Shape, Electroplate and Bluu Next.

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

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Test St Elbrus Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview St Elbrus 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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In Context

St Elbrus Specimen Gallery

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St Elbrus Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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St Elbrus Specimen

St Elbrus

St Elbrus is a display typeface by Alexander Shimanov built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

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Tagline Pairings

St Elbrus— display typeface
St ElbrusBy Alexander Shimanov
St ElbrusTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

St Elbrus Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Heading Styles with St Elbrus

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
St Elbrus primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
St Elbrus section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
St Elbrus subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
St Elbrus content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
St Elbrus minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
St Elbrus smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

St Elbrus Body Typography

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

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

When setting St Elbrus 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.

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

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxSt Elbrus delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxSt Elbrus italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxSt Elbrus bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxSt Elbrus typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxSt Elbrus typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'St Elbrus'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed St Elbrus in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using St Elbrus in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring St Elbrus's Design

Alexander Shimanov
Display
Open Source

St Elbrus font is a bold display typeface with Cyrillic support featuring heavy weight, layered options, and outline variations for dimensional typography. The substantial presence and multiple styles enable creative layered effects. This layered bold display typeface excels in poster design, concert graphics, athletic event branding, and dimensional signage applications. The layering capabilities create depth and visual interest. St Elbrus serves designers creating impactful promotional materials, sports graphics, and projects requiring dimensional typography. The Cyrillic support adds multilingual capability. Pair layers together for dimensional effects or use individual styles with clean supporting fonts.

St Elbrus comes from the work of Alexander Shimanov. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, St Elbrus features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

St Elbrus 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.

St Elbrus

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of St Elbrus

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places St Elbrus 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.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 60). St Elbrus offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Alexander Shimanov. 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 St Elbrus

St Elbrus embodies the Graphic typeface, anchored in 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 editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith indexes St Elbrus in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for St Elbrus
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

60
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of St Elbrus

St Elbrus falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

St Elbrus Legibility Characteristics

St Elbrus 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.

St Elbrus 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.

St Elbrus: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

St Elbrus Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use St Elbrus Effectively

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 St Elbrus. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve St Elbrus in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

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Available Weights

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Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

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Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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 259 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

License Type

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.

St Elbrus 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 St Elbrus ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.