Ysabeau Office
Ysabeau Office is a sans serif font in 9 weights with italics, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are 11% narrower than the typical sans serif font. Last updated 10 September 2025.
Editing a PDF that uses Ysabeau Office
Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. MythosPDF recognises Ysabeau Office from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Ysabeau Office itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 463.5 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 654.4 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 246 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | tabular (every digit is 517 units wide, so columns of numbers line up) |
| Spacing | proportional |
| Width of i compared with m | 33% |
| Printable ASCII characters covered | 94 of 94 |
| Category | Sans serif |
Weights and styles
- Ysabeau Office Thin Italic
- Ysabeau Office Thin
- Ysabeau Office ExtraLight Italic
- Ysabeau Office ExtraLight
- Ysabeau Office Light Italic
- Ysabeau Office Light
- Ysabeau Office Italic
- Ysabeau Office Regular
- Ysabeau Office Medium Italic
- Ysabeau Office Medium
- Ysabeau Office SemiBold Italic
- Ysabeau Office SemiBold
- Ysabeau Office Bold Italic
- Ysabeau Office Bold
- Ysabeau Office ExtraBold Italic
- Ysabeau Office ExtraBold
- Ysabeau Office Black Italic
- Ysabeau Office Black
Languages beyond basic Latin
Open fonts closest to Ysabeau Office
Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.
- Ysabeau Infant Regularnearly identical widths (4.6 units)
- Ysabeau Regularvery close widths (8 units)
- Ysabeau SC Regularsimilar widths (26.6 units)
- EB Garamond Regularloosely similar widths (30.5 units)
- Amiri Regularloosely similar widths (34.8 units)
- Averia Gruesa Libre Regularloosely similar widths (35.8 units)
- Ruwudu Regularloosely similar widths (35.9 units)
- Crimson Text Regularloosely similar widths (37.3 units)
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Questions people ask
+Can I edit a PDF that uses Ysabeau Office?
Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Ysabeau Office itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.
+Is Ysabeau Office free to use?
Ysabeau Office is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, an open licence that allows free use in documents, including commercial ones. Check the licence text for your exact use.
+Which font is closest to Ysabeau Office?
By measured letter widths, Ysabeau Infant is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 4.6 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.
+Which languages does Ysabeau Office support?
It includes these character sets: Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Latin, Central European, Math symbols, Symbols, Vietnamese.
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