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Yew Basturd

Yew Basturd offers versatile typography with carefully balanced proportions for diverse design applications.

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Comicby Nyek! Pinoy Komik Fonts64% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Yew Basturd

01

Best Font Pairings for Yew Basturd

TypeSmith curates 5 expert font pairings for Yew Basturd, including combinations with Noto Sans Balinese, Noto Sans Tagbanwa and Noto Sans Warang Citi.

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

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02

Test Yew Basturd Font Pairings Live

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

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

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In Context

Yew Basturd Specimen Gallery

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Yew Basturd Editorial Specimen

Yew Basturd in Editorial Context

Yew Basturd is a comic typeface by Nyek! Pinoy Komik Fonts suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Nyek! Pinoy Komik Fonts

Typeface Designer • Comic

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

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

Designed by Nyek! Pinoy Komik Fonts, Yew Basturd balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Yew Basturd Typography

A comic typeface for UI components.

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Yew Basturd Specimen

Yew Basturd

Yew Basturd is a comic typeface by Nyek! Pinoy Komik Fonts built for display contexts.

2 WeightsComic Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Yew Basturd
Yew Basturd
YEW BASTURD
YEW BASTURDTYPE
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Tagline Pairings

Yew Basturd— comic typeface
Yew BasturdBy Nyek! Pinoy Komik Fonts
Yew BasturdTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Yew Basturd Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Yew Basturd Typography Scale

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

Yew Basturd Body Typography

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

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

When setting Yew Basturd 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.

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

Quick Start

Yew Basturd Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Yew Basturd CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Yew Basturd

Nyek! Pinoy Komik Fonts
Comic
Open Source

Yew Basturd is a free font from Nyek! Pinoy Komik Fonts.

Yew Basturd was crafted by Nyek! Pinoy Komik Fonts. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Comic typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Yew Basturd features irregular stroke weight mimicking brush or pen lettering and slightly bouncing baseline for casual rhythm. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for comic book and graphic novel lettering.

Yew Basturd is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 5 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Yew Basturd

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

1

Classification

Comic analysis. TypeSmith classifies Yew Basturd within the Graphic (Casual Script / Comic) tradition, characterized by Irregular stroke weight mimicking brush or pen lettering and Slightly bouncing baseline for casual rhythm. Comic lettering typefaces descend from hand-lettered speech balloons in sequential art. Key technical strength: openType contextual alternates for natural variation.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 64). Yew Basturd offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Nyek! Pinoy Komik Fonts. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Comic with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Yew Basturd

Yew Basturd represents a Graphic typeface, anchored in the tradition where comic lettering typefaces descend from hand-lettered speech balloons in sequential art. Its distinctive irregular stroke weight mimicking brush or pen lettering and slightly bouncing baseline for casual rhythm make it well-suited for comic book and graphic novel lettering. TypeSmith indexes Yew Basturd in a single weight variant and 5 curated font pairings.

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Accessibility & Usability

64
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Yew Basturd

Yew Basturd falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Bouncing baselines and irregular strokes can challenge readers with dyslexia. Use at adequate size and line spacing to compensate for informal structure.

Yew Basturd's Legibility

Yew Basturd draws legibility from its irregular stroke weight mimicking brush or pen lettering and slightly bouncing baseline for casual rhythm. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Yew Basturd Reading Performance

Highly readable within the conventions of sequential art. The informal rhythm aids quick scanning of short text blocks but fatigues over sustained paragraphs. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Eye Strain Considerations for Yew Basturd

Yew Basturd provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. The informal structure benefits from generous line height to offset baseline variation and reduce tracking fatigue.

Yew Basturd Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Yew Basturd

Works best as a standalone voice. If pairing is required, use a simple geometric sans-serif for supporting text like captions or credits. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Yew Basturd. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Yew Basturd in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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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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200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
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900

Internationalization

Yew Basturd 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 101 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Yew Basturd Licensing

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.

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