# Ysabeau Office font

> A low-contrast humanist sans built on Garamond-style proportions, variable from Thin to Black with italics.

Ysabeau Office is a humanist sans serif by Christian Thalmann that carries Garamond-style proportions into low-contrast letters. Ysabeau Office is a variable font with nine named weights from Thin to Black and matching italics, covering Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits reading text and documents.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif)
- Designed by: Christian Thalmann
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 18 (Thin 100, ExtraLight 200, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700, ExtraBold 800, Black 900; with italics)
- Variable font: Yes (wght 1–1000)
- Glyphs: 1971
- Character sets: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-09-10
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ysabeau+Office
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/ysabeau-office
- Tagged for: Body text, Interfaces, Editorial, Elegant

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2023 The Ysabeau Project Authors (https://github.com/CatharsisFonts/Ysabeau)

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Ysabeau Office free for commercial use?

Ysabeau Office can be used in commercial work at no cost under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license also permits changes and redistribution, but the fonts cannot be sold by themselves and modified versions must remain under the same license. Read the license text for the exact terms.

### Who designed Ysabeau Office?

Ysabeau Office was designed by Christian Thalmann of Catharsis Fonts. The copyright notice names The Ysabeau Project Authors.

### Is Ysabeau Office a variable font?

Yes. Ysabeau Office is a variable font with a weight axis from 1 to 1000, supplied as separate upright and italic files.

### How many weights does Ysabeau Office have?

Ysabeau Office has nine named weights, Thin 100 to Black 900, each with an italic, which makes 18 styles.

### Which languages does Ysabeau Office support?

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

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/ysabeau-office (trendhub)