Specimen
Handgloves
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
1 weight · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Yesteryear
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Low
0.379
stroke weight
14% of cap height
0.142
contrast
Low
0.200
letter width
Condensed
0.691
Web embed
Use Yesteryear on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Yesteryear&display=swap');
/* Yesteryear */
body {
font-family: 'Yesteryear', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Yesteryear
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- Astigmatic
- Added to Google Fonts
- December 19, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Yesteryear font
Yesteryear is a handwriting typeface designed by Astigmatic, first released to Google Fonts on December 2011. It ships with 1 weight and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a low x-height at 38% of the cap height, condensed letter forms and low stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Yesteryear against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Yesteryear is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.