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Ysabeau

The library lists Ysabeau together with three more families that share a designer with it and either its name or its measurements. It is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families.

Outlines drawn from the Ysabeau file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the sans serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Ysabeau	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	717	740
Cap height (top of H)	658	702
x-height (top of x)	414	519
Descender (foot of p)	−289	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.63	0.70
Average lowercase width	463	522
Ink coverage, a–z	37.6%	40.2%

Versions and companionsA shared designer and a shared name or matching measurements

Version	Compared with Ysabeau	Added
Ysabeau Infant	matching measurements	2023
Ysabeau Office	matching measurements	2023
Ysabeau SC	no ascenders (capital forms on the lowercase keys); lowercase wider by 54	2023

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Josefin Sans, NTR; just above: Afacad, Afacad Flux; level with: Ysabeau Infant, Ysabeau Office

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Sofia Sans Semi Condensed, Gafata; just above: Gowun Dodum, Magra; level with: Ysabeau Office

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 1 to 1000.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	1 to 1000	545 families

Scripts8 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 2,048 glyphs and 1,012 mapped Unicode characters; 32 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates, slashed zero, case-sensitive forms and six stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Libertinus Sanstaller x-height, wider Teacherstaller x-height, wider Quattrocento Sanstaller x-height, wider Molengotaller x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

EB Garamondshorter x-height, narrower Benneshorter x-height, narrower Newsreadertaller x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Ysabeau

Same designer

Christian Thalmann is credited on 6 other families in the library, from Cormorant (2017) to Cormorant Upright (2017); the closest of them in x-height and width is Cormorant Infant.