Yanone Kaffeesatz

Designed by Yanone, Cyreal

6 weights • Version 32 • On Google Fonts since 2010 • Popularity #190

Quick Summary

6

Styles

200-700

Weight Range

1

Variable axis

7

Languages / Subsets

Category
sans-serif
Best for
textdisplay
Variable axes
Weight
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin, Vietnamese
Origin
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Sep 16, 2025

© 2010 The Yanone Kaffeesatz Project Authors

The quick brown fox

32px

About Yanone Kaffeesatz Fonts

"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 Huerta Tipográfica.

To contribute, see github.com/yanone/kaffeesatz.

Who Designed Yanone Kaffeesatz?

Cyreal portrait

Cyreal

Cyreal is a foundry deeply rooted in the open-source movement. Founded in 2010, the collective has expanded popular typefaces like Nunito, Rubik, and Raleway with Cyrillic support, among other works. Its original releases, including Lora, Prata, and Alice, have become a quiet staple in digital and print design, widely appearing across websites, apps, and editorial layouts.

cyreal.org | GitHub | Instagram

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