The main difference between Yanone Kaffeesatz and FF Kava
FF Kava supports up to 82 different languages such as Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Turkish, Italian, Polish, Kurdish (Latin), Azerbaijani (Latin), Romanian, Dutch, Hungarian, Kazakh (Latin), Serbian (Latin), Czech, Swedish, Belarusian (Latin), Croatian, Slovak, Finnish, Danish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovenian, Irish, Estonian, Basque, Icelandic, and Luxembourgian in Latin and other scripts.
Please note that not all languages are available for all formats.
Before it was FF Kava, the five-weight family you see here started out as a free font family called Kaffeesatz, published by Yanone in 2004 during the early days of his type design career. The bold weight was drawn from a variety of coffee house lettering from the 1920s, while its lighter weights were done with the purpose of bridging the gap to contemporary design applications. A black weight has also been added, as well as small caps and multiple figure sets. Italics were also drawn to match the Latin, enhancing the family’s range. The final result is an attractive, modern and soft sans serif type family for display and short bursts of text.
