Ysabeau Office

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Weights and styles

• Thin 100Ysabeau Office Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Ysabeau Office ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Ysabeau Office Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Ysabeau Office Regular Italic
• Medium 500Ysabeau Office Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Ysabeau Office SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Ysabeau Office Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Ysabeau Office ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Ysabeau Office Black Black Italic

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

About Ysabeau Office

Ysabeau Office is a sans serif from the Ysabeau project, which sets out to join the letter shapes of the Garamond tradition to a clean, low-contrast sans. The specimen shows the result: a modest lowercase with long ascenders and descenders, a wide round O, a splayed M and a two-storey g, all in strokes of nearly even weight. The figures in the specimen are lining and sit at capital height. The family is a variable font whose weight axis runs from 1 to 1000, with nine named weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 and an italic for each, 18 styles in all. It holds 1,971 glyphs across Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese, Greek and Cyrillic, including extended Cyrillic. Christian Thalmann of Catharsis Fonts is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Ysabeau Office works

Long reading on screens

Book-face proportions in a low-contrast sans are the stated aim of the Ysabeau project, which names e-readers as a use.

Office documents and reports

Lining figures at capital height and nine weights with italics cover headings, body and tables in one family.

Multilingual publishing

Latin, Greek and Cyrillic are drawn together, with Vietnamese, so translated editions keep one typeface.

Large display lines

Thin 100 and Black 900 at page-filling sizes show off the long extenders and the wide round letters.

Sans companion to a Garamond-style serif

The project recommends pairing with EB Garamond or Cormorant, whose proportions it shares.

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
• Greek

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, 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

Fonts that pair with Ysabeau Office

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 Ysabeau Office 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: "Ysabeau Office";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/YsabeauOffice-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 1 1000;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Ysabeau Office";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/YsabeauOffice-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 1 1000;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Ysabeau Office", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Ysabeau Office 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=Ysabeau+Office:ital,wght@0,1..1000;1,1..1000&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Axis wider than the named weights

The weight axis spans 1 to 1000, beyond the named Thin 100 and Black 900 instances.

Upright and italic files

The package has one variable file for the upright styles and one for the italics; the 18 static instances are not included.

Small lowercase

Lowercase letters are modest in height with long extenders, so the face looks smaller than most sans serifs at the same point size.

FAQs

Collections with Ysabeau Office

• Humanist sans-serif fonts for readable text

  Sans-serif families with open, pen-influenced letterforms that stay comfortable in paragraphs, documents and interface text.

Similar fonts

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