Ytterbium

Name: Ytterbium
Author: Ensix

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

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Displayby Ensix56% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Ytterbium, including combinations with Designosaur, Virtue Serif and Arar.

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Ytterbium Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Ytterbium Specimen

Ytterbium

Ytterbium is a display typeface by Ensix built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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Ytterbium

YTTERBIUM

YTTERBIUMTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Ytterbium— display typeface

YtterbiumBy Ensix

YtterbiumTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Ytterbium Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Ytterbium Body Typography

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

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

When setting Ytterbium 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.

Ytterbium 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	Ytterbium delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Ytterbium italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Ytterbium bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Ytterbium typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Ytterbium typography specimen

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

Quick Start

Using Ytterbium in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Ytterbium in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Understanding Ytterbium

Ensix

Display

Open Source

Ytterbium font is a bold futuristic display typeface featuring sharp Y2K letterforms. Edgy and nostalgic, this design delivers turn-of-millennium aesthetics for gaming brands, electronic music, and products celebrating early 2000s visual culture. The sharp angles create aggressive character while Y2K styling captures genuine period energy. Designers working on retro gaming, rave revivals, and nostalgic tech products will appreciate the precise period character. Pair with technical body text.

Ytterbium was designed by Ensix. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Ytterbium 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.

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

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Ytterbium

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

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Ytterbium 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.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 56). Ytterbium offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

Design Heritage

Designed by Ensix. 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 Ytterbium

Ytterbium 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 brand logotypes and wordmarks. TypeSmith indexes Ytterbium in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Ytterbium

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Alternatives to Ytterbium

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Ytterbium 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

Adequate Accessibility

Ytterbium Accessibility Profile

Ytterbium falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Reading Ytterbium: Legibility Factors

Ytterbium 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.

How Readable is Ytterbium?

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.

Ytterbium's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Ytterbium Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Ytterbium

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 Ytterbium. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Ytterbium in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Ytterbium Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

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400

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700

800

900

Internationalization

Ytterbium Multilingual Support

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

Legal

Usage Rights for Ytterbium

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.

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

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Best Ways to Use Ytterbium

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In Context

Ytterbium Typography

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Character Set

Type Scale

Ytterbium Body Typography

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

Ytterbium Accessibility Profile

Reading Ytterbium: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Ytterbium?

Ytterbium's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Ytterbium Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Ytterbium

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Ytterbium

Best Ways to Use Ytterbium

Best Font Pairings for Ytterbium

Test Ytterbium Font Pairings Live

In Context

Ytterbium Typography

Ytterbium

Character Set

Type Scale

Ytterbium Body Typography

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

Ytterbium Accessibility Profile

Reading Ytterbium: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Ytterbium?

Ytterbium's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Ytterbium Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Ytterbium

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference