Yanone Kaffeesatz Font
by Yanone, Cyreal · Sans Serif · 6 styles · OFL · free for commercial use
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About Yanone Kaffeesatz
"Yanone Kaffeesatz" was first published in 2004 and is Yanone’s first ever finished typeface. Its
Bold is
reminiscent of 1920s coffee house typography, while the rather thin fonts bridge the gap to present times. Lacking
self confidence and knowledge about the type scene, Yanone decided to publish the family for free under a Creative Commons License. A decision that
should turn out one of the best he ever made. It has been downloaded over 100,000 times to date, and you can witness
Kaffeesatz use on German fresh-water gyms, Dubai mall promos and New Zealand McDonalds ads. And of course on coffee
and foodstuff packaging and café design around the globe.
In 2009 he reworked much of the typeface and it got published in FontShop’s FontFont Library under the new name FF Kava. You can read more about it in an extensive article by
Yves Peters on FontFeed.
Updated in December 2013 with Cyrillic, designed by Sol Matas and Juan Pablo del Peral at HT Fonts.
To contribute, see github.com/yanone/kaffeesatz.
License & usage
Yanone Kaffeesatz is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it for free in personal and commercial projects: logos, websites, apps, videos, print and products. You may embed it and modify it; the font files themselves may not be sold on their own.
To use it on a website, add the files with @font-face and set font-family: 'Yanone Kaffeesatz', sans-serif;
View the full license text (also included in the ZIP).
