Yaldevi

Name: Yaldevi
Author: Sol Matas

Yaldevi delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Sol Matas85% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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TypeSmith curates 7 expert font pairings for Yaldevi, including combinations with Copperplate Cc, BodoniXT and Picaflor.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Yaldevi with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Yaldevi Editorial Specimen

Yaldevi in Editorial Context

Yaldevi is a sans serif typeface by Sol Matas suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Sol Matas

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Yaldevi demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Yaldevi supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Sol Matas, Yaldevi balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Yaldevi Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Yaldevi Specimen

Yaldevi

Yaldevi is a sans serif typeface by Sol Matas built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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Yaldevi— sans serif typeface

YaldeviBy Sol Matas

YaldeviTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Yaldevi Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Yaldevi Used As Body Text

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Yaldevi, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Yaldevi demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Yaldevi for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Yaldevi small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Yaldevi delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Yaldevi italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Yaldevi bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Yaldevi typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Yaldevi typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Yaldevi'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Yaldevi in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Yaldevi:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Yaldevi:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Yaldevi';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Yaldevi');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Code Snippets for Yaldevi

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Yaldevi', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Yaldevi', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'yaldevi': ['Yaldevi', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-yaldevi">Your text here</p>

About

Exploring Yaldevi's Design

Sol Matas

Sans Serif

Open Source

Yaldevi combines mathematical proportions and calculated curves, making it well-suited for corporate branding. Its geometric forms and clean lines contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for digital interfaces and web content, Yaldevi adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Yaldevi font supports Sinhala and Latin scripts, catering to a wide range of languages that use ....

Yaldevi comes from the work of Sol Matas. Known for serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Yaldevi's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Yaldevi features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for corporate identity systems requiring neutrality.

Yaldevi is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 7 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Yaldevi

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Yaldevi's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. From a classification standpoint, Yaldevi within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 85). Yaldevi performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts. Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category.

Design Heritage

Designed by Sol Matas. Known for serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Yaldevi's character shaping and weight distribution across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Yaldevi

Yaldevi represents a Lineal typeface, anchored in the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for corporate identity systems requiring neutrality. TypeSmith catalogs Yaldevi in a single weight variant and 7 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

7 curated pairings for Yaldevi

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Yaldevi based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Yaldevi: Accessibility Considerations

Yaldevi scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

How Legible is Yaldevi?

Yaldevi draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Yaldevi?

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Yaldevi: Comfort in Extended Reading

Yaldevi provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Yaldevi Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Yaldevi. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Yaldevi at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

How to Use Yaldevi Effectively

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Yaldevi. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Yaldevi in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available on Google Fonts

4 weights available for download

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Available Weights

400

Regular

400

Regular Italic

700

Bold

700

Bold Italic

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Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

The Yaldevi font supports Sinhala and Latin scripts, catering to a wide range of languages that use these writing systems.

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License Type

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Yaldevi is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Yaldevi ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'yaldevi': ['Yaldevi', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-yaldevi">Your text here</p>

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Best Ways to Use Yaldevi

Best Font Pairings for Yaldevi

Test Yaldevi Font Pairings Live

In Context

Yaldevi Typography

Yaldevi

Character Set

Type Scale

Yaldevi Used As Body Text

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

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Inclusive Design

Yaldevi: Accessibility Considerations

How Legible is Yaldevi?

How Readable is Yaldevi?

Yaldevi: Comfort in Extended Reading

Yaldevi Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Yaldevi Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Yaldevi

Best Ways to Use Yaldevi

Best Font Pairings for Yaldevi

Test Yaldevi Font Pairings Live

In Context

Yaldevi Typography

Yaldevi

Character Set

Type Scale

Yaldevi Used As Body Text

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Yaldevi: Accessibility Considerations

How Legible is Yaldevi?

How Readable is Yaldevi?

Yaldevi: Comfort in Extended Reading

Yaldevi Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Yaldevi Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference