- Heading
- Yesteryear
- Body text
- Alice
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- A shared mood: vintage
Yesteryear
About the font
Yesteryear is a free font by Astigmatic, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 336 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 31% of the em and the capital height is 77%.
Yesteryear is a handwriting font by Astigmatic with one style at weight 400, not a variable font. It contains 370 glyphs and supports the Latin script only. Its source notes describe it as a flat nib connecting script, loosely based on a 1942 film title screen, with a slightly sharper feel. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Astigmatic
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Latin
Glyphs
370
Character and uses
- Mood
- vintage
- playful
- Design
- connected script
- brush
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Yesteryear has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 336 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French
- Turkish
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Kinyarwanda
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- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Luba-Lulua
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Rundi
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Norwegian
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Sango
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
- Chadian Arabic
- Slovenian
- Scots
- North Ndebele
- Acoli
- Kongo
- Makonde
- Gheg Albanian
- Sena
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Makhuwa-Meetto
- Morisyen
- Kʼicheʼ
- Irish
- Latvian
- Lunda
- Basque
…and 233 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Not included
- Indian Rupee — Not included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Not included
- Numero sign — Not included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 369
- x-height
- 31% of the em
- Capital height
- 77% of the em
- Version
- 1.000
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Kerning
kern - Fractions
frac - Superscript
sups - Ordinals
ordn
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Yesteryear
- Designer’s page
- astigmatic.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Yesteryear font free to use?
Yes. Yesteryear is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Yesteryear support Cyrillic?
No, Yesteryear supports Latin script only.
How many languages does Yesteryear support?
Yesteryear covers 336 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install Yesteryear?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Yesteryear?
Yesteryear was created by Astigmatic.
What is Yesteryear good for?
Judging by its design, Yesteryear suits: invitations, tattoos, logos, social media.
Pairs well with Yesteryear
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