Commercial · Serif · Process Type Foundry
Elena
Elena is a licensed font from Process Type Foundry: no price is printed on the pages read for it. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Elena is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Nicole Dotin
- Released
- 2011
- Styles
- 8
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Not read from the foundry’s page on 2026-09-04; see the page.
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Text serif of moderate contrast and economical proportions for print and screen, with small caps, old-style figures and alternates; four weights with italics, released 2011 and updated 2016.
Free alternatives to Elena
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Elena is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Crimson Pro webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Crimson Pro.
same classification
An old-style text serif with a comparable calm texture.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Source Serif 4 webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Source Serif 4.
same classification
A transitional text serif with optical sizes.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Lora webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Lora.
commonly substituted
A moderate-contrast text serif often used for screen reading.
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