Ysabeau SC

Try Ysabeau SC

Weights and styles

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

Ysabeau SC 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 Ysabeau SC

Ysabeau SC is a sans serif family in which lowercase input is drawn as small capitals. According to its official notes, the parent design joins letterforms from the Garamond tradition to a clean sans serif with little stroke contrast, and the specimen shows that mix: wide, classical capitals, a J that drops below the baseline, a Q with a long sweeping tail, and old-style figures that rise and fall like lowercase letters. The small capitals keep the stroke weight of the full capitals, so mixed settings look even. The family is a variable font with a weight axis running from 1 to 1000 and nine named weights, Thin 100 to Black 900; this cut has no italic. Its 1,247 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese, Greek and Cyrillic. Christian Thalmann of Catharsis Fonts is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Ysabeau SC works

Section headings and running heads

Capitals with small capitals give a heading a formal, even line without the blockiness of full capitals.

Names, acronyms and labels

Small capitals with matched stroke weight set author names, abbreviations and captions that sit quietly inside a page.

Title pages beside a serif text face

The old-style proportions and figures let Ysabeau SC head a page whose body is set in a book serif.

Titling in Greek and Cyrillic

Greek and Cyrillic small capitals are part of the 1,247 glyphs, so multilingual title lines share one design.

Large, light display lines

At Thin and ExtraLight the long Q tail and descending J become the visible features of a page-wide title.

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 SC

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 SC 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 SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/YsabeauSC-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 1 1000;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

No lowercase

Typing lowercase letters produces small capitals. For ordinary mixed-case text the regular Ysabeau family is the one to use.

No italic in this cut

Ysabeau SC contains upright styles only: nine weights, 9 styles.

Weight axis from 1 to 1000

The axis reaches beyond the named Thin 100 and Black 900, and its default is 700, so set the weight you want explicitly.

Figures are old-style

The numerals in the specimen vary in height and descend below the baseline, which suits text more than tables.

FAQs

Collections with Ysabeau SC

• Fonts with small capitals

  Families issued as small-caps cuts, where the lowercase keys give capitals at x-height: for acronyms, headings, credits and refined body text.

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