README for Ysabeau font package.

Ysabeau is a free type family developed by Christian Thalmann (Catharsis Fonts). It combines the time-honored and supremely readable letterforms of the Garamond legacy with the clean crispness of a low-contrast sans serif, rendering it well suited for body copy as well as display. Designed from scratch in the comercial font editor Glyphs, the typeface was later distributed under SIL open font license.

This package provides LaTeX font support for traditional TeX engines (pdftex, dvips, on so on).

To use Ysabeau font, just add the line

\usepackage{ysabeau}

at the preamble of you document. That's it.

The package provides the following font encodings:

Latin      = QX, L7X, CS, LY1, OT1, TS1 and T1
Cyrillic   = T2C, T2B and T2A
Greek      = LGR
IPA        = TS3 and T3
Afrikáans  = T4
Vietnamese = T5

The package provides the following shapes:

n  = romans
it = italics
sw = swash
sc = small caps

and weights:

ul = Hairline (\mdseries)
el = Thin (\mdseries)
l  = Extralight (\mdseries)
sl = Light (\mdseries)
m  = Regular and Medium (\mdseries)
sb = Semibold (\bfseries)
b  = Bold (\bfseries)
eb = ExtraBold (\bfseries)
ub = Black (\bfseries)

Figures:

Lining nums (Lining and Tabular)
Oldstyle nums (Lining and Tabular)

Additional commands and declarations are provided for local use. Read the user manual guide (PDF file) for more details. The Ysabeau fonts were created to Adobe PostScript (type1) using otftotfm; LaTeX files support were created with autoinst by Marc Penninga, wrapper of LCDF TypeTools suite by Eddie Kohler.

The Ysabeau fonts are distributed under SIL open font license, version 1.1. A verbatim of this license can be found in doc folder. The LaTeX files support are Public Domain. This document is licensed under What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL), version 2 or later. A verbatim of this license can be found in doc folder. For a detailed information about this license, visit http://www.wtfpl.net/about

This package is maintained by Noel Merino Hernández

muxkernel at gmail dot com

Current version: 1.7 (2026/08/28)

History versions:

1.1: Initial release (2024/01/31)
1.2: Add oldstylenums command and update doc (2024/10/22)
1.3: Remove starred forms of textsuperscript and textsubscript commands
1.4: Added some new commands for figures: liningnums, tabularliningnums and tabularoldstylenums. textsuperscript and textsubscript commands were removed (2024/11/05)
1.5: Restore starred and unstarred forms of textsuperscript and textsubscript commands. This fix repairs footnotemarkers in footnotes (2024/11/06)
1.6: Update font to 2.006 version. Now T3 encoding (IPA) provides more glyphs (2026/01/14)
1.7: Removed some dependencies (xstring and ifthen) by TeX primitives. Removed some unnecessary dependencies (scalefnt and etoolbox). Add missing font feature (scale=MatchLowercase) in user manual. Now, compilation with traditional TeX engines (dvips, pdfTeX and so on) is faster (2026/08/28)
