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  5. Year

Year

Year commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Ryan Silva48% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Year

01

Best Font Pairings for Year

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Year, including combinations with Staff Meeting, New Computer Modern and Golden Goose.

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

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02

Test Year Font Pairings Live

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

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

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In Context

Year Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Year
ProductsSolutionsResourcesPricing

Year Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

Active2 weights available
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Year Specimen

Year

Year is a display typeface by Ryan Silva built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Year
Year
YEAR
YEARTYPE
Y

Tagline Pairings

Year— display typeface
YearBy Ryan Silva
YearTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Year Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Year Typography Scale

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Year primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Year section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Year subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Year content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Year minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Year smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Year Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Year 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.

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

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxYear delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxYear italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxYear bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxYear typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxYear typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Year'; }

Quick Start

Using Year in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Year';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Year:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Year CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Year', 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        'year': ['Year', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-year">Your text here</p>

About

Year Background & Features

Ryan Silva
Display
Open Source

Year font is a bold display typeface featuring cool retro rounded Y2K letterforms. Annual and nostalgic, this design delivers millennium aesthetics for annual brands, year products, and Y2K marketing. The retro rounded construction creates annual Y2K presence. Designers working on annual products, year branding, and millennium communications will appreciate the year character. Pair with rounded body text.

Year was designed by Ryan Silva. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Year features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks.

Year is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Year

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Year

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Year within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 48). Year may present readability challenges at smaller sizes — consider pairing with a more accessible font for body text.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Ryan Silva. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Year

Year falls within the Graphic typeface, drawn from the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials. TypeSmith catalogs Year in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Year
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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Year 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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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

48
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Year

Year has limited accessibility at small sizes due to reduced character differentiation, so reserve it for headlines and display contexts. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Reading Year: Legibility Factors

Year draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: Year

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Visual Comfort with Year

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

Year Accessibility Recommendations

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

Year Usage Guidelines

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Year. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Year in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

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Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

Aa
100
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400
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500
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600
Aa
700
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800
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900

Internationalization

Year Language Coverage

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

This font encodes 71 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

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.

Year 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 Year ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.