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Yanone Kaffeesatz

A condensed sans whose Bold recalls 1920s coffee-house lettering, variable from ExtraLight 200 to Bold 700.

Sans Serif 6 styles · variable by Yanone, Cyreal OFL

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Yanone Kaffeesatz is a condensed sans serif by Yanone, first published in 2004 as his first finished typeface, with Cyrillic added in 2013. Yanone Kaffeesatz is a variable font with six weights from ExtraLight 200 to Bold 700 and 668 glyphs. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is used for headlines, menus and packaging.

Yanone Kaffeesatz font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Yanone, Cyreal
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
6 6 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 200–700
Glyphs
668
Languages checked
28 see the list
Last updated
version 2.003
Used for
HeadlinesPackagingRetroBoldCondensed

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Yanone Kaffeesatz

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Yanone Kaffeesatz; the download contains the complete files.

Yanone Kaffeesatz font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Yanone Kaffeesatz specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • ExtraLight 200Yanone Kaffeesatz ExtraLight
  • Light 300Yanone Kaffeesatz Light
  • Regular 400Yanone Kaffeesatz Regular
  • Medium 500Yanone Kaffeesatz Medium
  • SemiBold 600Yanone Kaffeesatz SemiBold
  • Bold 700Yanone Kaffeesatz Bold

Yanone Kaffeesatz is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Yanone Kaffeesatz

Yanone Kaffeesatz is a condensed sans serif with a hand-made flavour. In the specimen the letters are tall and narrow, the stroke ends are slightly angled, the k has a looped arm and the g a compact double bowl; the light cuts look wiry and contemporary, while the Bold, according to its designer, recalls the typography of 1920s coffee houses. Yanone published the family in 2004 as his first finished typeface, at that time under a Creative Commons license. Cyrillic arrived in December 2013, drawn at HT Fonts by Juan Pablo del Peral and Sol Matas; the name table also credits Daniel Pouzeot and Cyreal for Cyrillic. The family has six weights on a variable axis from 200 to 700, without italics. Its 668 glyphs cover Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Yanone Kaffeesatz works

Café menus and chalkboard-style signs
The Bold's coffee-house heritage suits drink lists, price boards and shop windows.
Food and coffee packaging
Narrow letters fit product names and descriptions onto slim labels and pouches.
Compact headlines
Six weights in a condensed width let long titles stay on one line in newsletters and blogs.
Posters with thin lettering
ExtraLight 200 and Light 300 draw tall, fine lines that work as large-scale text.
Cyrillic headlines
The Cyrillic added in 2013 extends the same narrow style to Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 668 glyphs.

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic
  • Catalan
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian
  • Vietnamese
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
  • Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2010 The Yanone Kaffeesatz Project Authors (https://github.com/yanone/kaffeesatz)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Yanone Kaffeesatz

Bodoni Moda Serif

Yanone Kaffeesatz is sans serif and Bodoni Moda is serif (6 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Aleo Slab Serif

Yanone Kaffeesatz is sans serif and Aleo is slab serif (9 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Cutive Mono Monospace

Cutive Mono is a monospace family (1 weight) for code and figures next to Yanone Kaffeesatz as the text face.

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Yanone Kaffeesatz on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Yanone Kaffeesatz";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/YanoneKaffeesatz-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Yanone Kaffeesatz", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Yanone Kaffeesatz with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italics
The family is upright only, with a weight axis from 200 to 700.
Narrow by design
All six weights are condensed; there is no normal-width version in the family.
One variable file
The package holds one TTF that contains every weight.

FAQs

Is Yanone Kaffeesatz free for commercial use?

Yes. Yanone Kaffeesatz is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Yanone Kaffeesatz?

Yanone Kaffeesatz was designed by Yanone. Its Cyrillic was drawn at HT Fonts by Juan Pablo del Peral and Sol Matas, and the name table also credits Daniel Pouzeot and Cyreal.

How many weights does Yanone Kaffeesatz have?

Yanone Kaffeesatz has six weights: ExtraLight 200, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700.

Is Yanone Kaffeesatz a variable font?

Yes. Yanone Kaffeesatz is a variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 700.

Which languages does Yanone Kaffeesatz support?

Yanone Kaffeesatz includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as German, French, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese, as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

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