Yanone Kaffeesatz
open-source font by Jan Gerner aka Yanone
"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.
Downloads
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2004-2010 The Yanone Kaffeesatz Project Authors
Building
Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.
If you particularly want to build fonts manually on your own computer, you will need to install the yq
utility. On OS X with Homebrew, type brew install yq
; on Linux, try snap install yq
; if all else fails, try the instructions on the linked page.
Then:
make build
will produce font files.make test
will run FontBakery's quality assurance tests.make proof
will generate HTML proof files.
License
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
Repository Layout
This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3, modified for the Google Fonts workflow.