Young Serif

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Young Serif Regular

About Young Serif

Young Serif is a heavy old-style serif typeface issued in a single style. The file is named Regular and carries the weight value 400, yet its strokes are thick and dark, with moderate contrast between the thick and thin parts and serifs that curve into the stems. The lowercase a is single-storey while the g keeps its two-storey form, and the b and f have rounded curves that the official notes single out as the soft, generous detail of the design. In the specimen the numerals are old-style figures: 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 drop below the baseline, and 6 and 8 rise above the rest. The font holds 631 glyphs in the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Bastien Sozeau designed it, the family was added to Google Fonts in 2023, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Young Serif works

Headlines and article titles

The Regular is already dark enough to carry a title, which matters because the family has no bold cut to step up to.

Pull quotes and short intros

The single-storey a and the rounded b and f give a few lines of large text a soft voice. With one weight and no italic, longer passages have no way to mark emphasis.

Packaging and labels

Thick strokes and moderate contrast leave no hairlines to thin out when a product name is printed small on a label.

Wordmarks

Letters such as the single-storey a, the two-storey g and the curved f give a short name recognisable shapes in a single heavy weight.

Prices and dates in a line of text

Old-style figures sit at lowercase height, so a year or a price reads as part of the sentence on a menu or poster.

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

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 Young Serif

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 Young Serif 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: "Young Serif";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/YoungSerif-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Young Serif", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Young Serif 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=Young+Serif&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style only

Young Serif ships as a single file, YoungSerif-Regular.ttf. There is no italic, no lighter cut and no bolder cut.

Darker than the weight value suggests

The style is registered as Regular 400, but the letters in the specimen are heavy. Software that picks a face by weight number treats it as a normal weight.

Figures rise and fall

The numerals shown in the specimen are old-style figures with ascending and descending digits, so columns of numbers do not sit on one common height.

Latin character sets

The subsets are Latin and Latin Extended, and the file holds 631 glyphs.

FAQs

Collections with Young Serif

• Fonts for packaging and product labels

  Brush scripts, soft serifs and sturdy display faces for jars, boxes, bottles and tags, where a name has to work on a small curved surface.

Similar fonts

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