Yorick is based on a monospace typewriter font (model 3402U) found in the Campionario caratteri e fregi tipografici (specimen book) of the Nebiolo typefoundry, dated 1920 – but the font might probably be older. The source is a slab serif form very common in typewriter fonts (Pica, according to Olivetti naming system) with a little touch of classical flavour from the Imperial style (i.e. with thick and thin contrasts). Start in 2016, Yorick keeps the essence of the original design, and avoid to make it look too digital or constructed. It’s a gentle industrial font: a font of engineers in Oxford shirt and tweed suits, not in white blouse. A precision tool with eleganza torinese, not showing off. Its italic is a proper one, not a slanted roman. It comes in a simple family of 4 styles, but with a large character set which includes bot Latin and Cyrillic scripts — each completed by localised alternates for Romanian, Moldovan, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian.

Caps Punctuation
Tabular Lining Figures
Automatic Fractions
Superiors/Inferiors
Ordinals
Arrows

Yorick contains a complete range of Cyrillic glyphs:
– Cyrillic Uppercases extended set
– Cyrillic Lowercases extended set
– Cyrillic localised alternates

Yorick has alternative semi-mono glyphs:
– Half width punctuation
– One-and-a-half width punctuation
– Latin half width glyphs
– Latin one-and-a-half width glyphs
– Cyrillic half width glyphs
– Cyrillic one-and-a-half width glyphs