Eiko

Built as a high-contrast serif, Eiko gracefully balances beauty and strength. It’s delicate without being fragile, expressive without being loud.

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Licenses starting at $40

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Thin 100
Extralight 200
Light 300
Regular 400
Medium 500
Bold 600
Black 700
Heavy 800
Thin Italic 100
Extralight Italic 200
Light Italic 300
Regular Italic 400
Medium Italic 500
Bold Italic 600
Black Italic 700
Heavy Italic 800

Eiko

Size

Leading

Spacing

A tribute in type.

Eiko

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Leading

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Inspired by a legend. Designed to leave a mark.

Eiko

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Eiko is not just a typeface—it’s a tribute. Named in honor of Eiko Ishioka, the legendary Japanese art director known for her bold vision and genre-defying work, this serif font carries forward her spirit of fearless refinement and creative mastery. Every curve, every Bézier point is meticulously drawn, not for show, but with intention. There’s nothing accidental here—just design in its purest, most poetic form.

Eiko

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Built as a high-contrast serif, Eiko gracefully balances beauty and strength. It’s delicate without being fragile, expressive without being loud. Its structure is unmistakably original—taking cues from traditional Japanese Mincho forms, while infusing them with modern editorial sophistication. And the functionality? As precise as its forms. Eiko includes kana alphabets (hiragana & katakana) and is made to pair seamlessly with existing kanji fonts, offering a rare harmony for multilingual designs that blend Latin and Japanese typography with grace. Now with the addition of 81 educational kanji and full italics, it’s more complete than ever. The feature set is nothing short of expansive: Japanese punctuation, Stylistic sets with circular & square numerals, Vertical writing support, Subscripts, superscripts, math & meteorological symbols, Arrows, ligatures, and loads of alternates. Eiko is ideal for projects that demand elegance without compromise—luxury branding, cultural publications, art-driven editorials, or refined digital experiences. It invites the viewer to pause, to notice, to appreciate. It’s not loud, but it resonates. More than a font, Eiko is a statement—an homage to design with conviction, and to creators who leave nothing to chance.

Eiko is variable

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with Italics

Glyphs View

Round dots

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Alternate o

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Discretionary ligatures

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Alternate O

O

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Standard ligatures

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Alternate Q

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Old style figures

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Alternate g

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Case sensitive forms

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A tribute in type.

Eiko is an indisputable statement of elegance and refinement ● Every curves and bezier points were applied with a sense of purpose. It is inspired by the work of Eiko Ishioka, a multitalented Japanese artist, this typeface seeks to convey the same aspect of her work in these typographic explorations ■ It is an original serif font with high contrast, including the syllable alphabet kana, hiragana & katakana, it is ideal to pair with other kanji fonts of the Japanese mincho style.

▲ Its resources include a large repertoire of Japanese punctuations, stylistic sets with circular and square numbers, vertical written, subscript and superscript numbers, mathematical symbols, meteorological symbols, ligatures, arrows and many alternates. And now: a new basic educational set with 81 kanjis and full italics!

Designer

Caio Kondo

Styles

16 Styles

16 Styles with 1,200 Glyphs each
Including Kana, Hiragana, Katakana & educational Kanji Support

Version

2.00

Latest update: June 2021

Available formats

OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Language Support

Kana, Hiragana, Katakana, Educational Kanji, Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lituanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Saami, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish ... (and more)