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YFF Zusker

ParaType · Alexander Kapusta

sans-serifgeometric sanscondensed
YFF Zusker specimen from ParaType

A warm geometric sans-serif by Alexander Kapusta, drawing on Soviet-era Journal Sans and mid-century Futura across 50 styles spanning five widths and ten weights, with a variable font included.

About

Inspired by Soviet-era catalogs set in Zhurnalnaya Rublenaya and the geometric clarity of Futura, YFF Zusker blends nostalgia with practical versatility. The family covers five widths from Ultra Condensed to standard proportions, with ten weights in each, plus a variable font encompassing all 50 static styles. Language support extends to over 400 languages, including minority Cyrillic-based languages of Russia, and 19 stylistic sets allow switching between alternate characters and square punctuation forms.

Classification

A warm geometric sans-serif drawing from Soviet-era Journal Sans and mid-20th-century American Futura, combining rounded geometric forms with humanist warmth across five widths and eleven weights.

Weights

ThinExtra LightLightRegularMediumSemi BoldBoldExtra BoldFatThicc

Optical sizes and widths

Ultra CondensedExtra CondensedCondensedSemi CondensedStandard

Family

YFF Zusker Ultra CondensedYFF Zusker Extra CondensedYFF Zusker CondensedYFF Zusker Semi Condensed

Languages

LatinCyrillic

Tags

geometricvintagesovietcyrillicvariableworkhorsebrandingmultilingual

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