Yesteryear

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Yesteryear Regular

About Yesteryear

Yesteryear is a connecting script with the weight and angles of flat-nib lettering. Its loose model, the official notes say, is the title screen of the 1942 film The Palm Beach Story, sharpened a little so that it also recalls the chrome script badges on vintage cars. In the specimen the strokes are thick with abrupt, chisel-cut ends, the letters slant steeply and join along the baseline, and the capitals are bold single gestures, such as the long diagonal Y and a Q with a looped tail. Numerals share the slant and weight. The family consists of one Regular style of 370 glyphs across the Latin and Latin Extended subsets, and it is not a variable font. Astigmatic is the credited foundry, with Brian J. Bonislawsky named in the copyright notice. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Yesteryear works

Diner and garage branding

Thick chisel-ended strokes echo the chrome car scripts the design is compared to, fitting a sign or badge.

Film-poster style titles

Its 1940s title-card source suits period posters, playbills and event headers.

Retro packaging

A product name in the heavy joined lowercase holds its shape on tins, bottle labels and boxes.

T-shirt and patch lettering

Solid strokes with few thin parts survive screen printing and embroidery better than hairline scripts.

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
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

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

License

Fonts that pair with Yesteryear

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 Yesteryear 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.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Yesteryear";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Yesteryear-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Yesteryear", cursive;
}

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

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Yesteryear&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Heavy by design

Yesteryear has one weight, labelled Regular 400, but the strokes are thick; there is no lighter version.

Lead with one capital

The capitals are wide gestures that crowd each other in the specimen's capitals line; they suit the start of a word.

Latin and Latin Extended

The 370 glyphs cover both Latin subsets and no other script.

FAQs

Collections with Yesteryear

• Retro script fonts with a mid-century feel

  Connected brush and monoline scripts in the manner of 1930s to 1960s advertising, film titles, painted signs and record sleeves.

• Fonts inspired by film posters and title cards

  Display faces whose designers name a film poster, a cinema tradition or a title screen as their source, from 1930s scripts to action-movie slabs.

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