




A neon sign in Dresden was the beginning of it all. Above a former delicatessen, a cursive script stood out in typical 1970s style alongside bold block letters. It was an unusual, contradictory pairing that fascinated the young Jan Gerner, who had just returned to his hometown after nine years in Ethiopia. The contrast between these two voices became the driving force behind his career and the core of his typographic approach.
Today, he is known internationally under the name Yanone: as a type designer, developer of typographic tools, DJ, and critical thinker—all part of his identity as a multidisciplinary artist. His works, which are always emotional and personal at their heart, are characterized by a keen sense of cultural translation, visual dramaturgy and technological change.
His best-known typeface, the free Yanone Kaffeesatz, has become one of the most popular fonts worldwide over the years. His large-format mixed media installation “Sun Gate” was a stimulating highlight at various festivals from Egypt to South Africa. Nine radially arranged light axes pulsate in slow, random rhythms controlled by computer—a hypnotic, spatial experience between technology and ritual.
After studying visual communication at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, he went on to complete a Master’s Degree in Type and Media at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. There, he created Antithesis, a typeface that continues the original impulse: three radically different styles combined into a functional system of maximum contrast. This also resulted in the smallest superfamily in the world, consisting of only one font style per style. The work has received several awards, including a Certificate of Excellence from the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) and a Yellow Pencil from D&AD. An accompanying dance film set new standards in the field of art and type design.
Yanone has contracted for Google, FontShop, Linotype, Bold Monday and GlyphsApp, among others. His skills extend far beyond type design: with font engineering tools such as Space Bar and Speed Punk, he has created tools that are now used in the training and practice of type designers worldwide. His work on Sukoon inspired him to create an entirely new font editor called Counterpunch, currently still work-in-progress.
After several years in Amman, Yanone now lives and works in Berlin again. The journey here—which began in front of a shop window in Dresden—was long and full of contrasts: geographical, creative, biographical. And yet it has consistently led him to where he is today: at the intersection of culture, technology and expression.
Jan Gerner
Olli Meier
Jan Gerner Naming, Motion Design, Specimen
Ivo Gabrowitsch Naming, Copywriting, Specimen
Manuel von Gebhardi Artwork
Jürgen Siebert Copywriting
Lucy Beckley English Translation
2016–2026
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| B | Baharna Arabic Balinese Balkan Romani Balochi Banjar Bari Basque Batak Dairi Batak Karo Batak Mandailing Batak Simalungun Batak Toba Belarusian Bemba (Zambia) Bena (Tanzania) Bezhta Biali Bikol Bini Bislama Bora Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo Bosnian Breton Budukh Buginese Bulgarian Bushi |
| C | Candoshi-Shapra Caquinte Caribbean Hindustani Cashibo-Cacataibo Cashinahua Catalan Cebuano Central Aymara Central Kurdish Central Kurdish Central Nahuatl Chachi Chamalal Chamorro Chavacano Chayahuita Chechen Chiga Chiltepec Chinantec Chinese Buriat Chokwe Chuukese Cimbrian Cofán Cook Islands Māori Cornish Corsican Creek Crimean Tatar Crimean Tatar Croatian Czech |
| D | Danish Dargwa Dari Dehu Dido Dimli Dogri (individual language) Dungan Dutch |
| E | Eastern Arrernte Eastern Oromo Efik Egyptian Arabic English Erzya |
| F | Faroese Fijian Filipino Finnish French Friulian |
| G | Gagauz Galician Ganda Garifuna German Gheg Albanian Gilbertese Gooniyandi Gourmanchéma Guadeloupean Creole French Gulf Arabic Gusii Gwichin |
| H | Haitian Halh Mongolian Hani Hassaniyya Hawaiian Hiligaynon Hopi Huastec Hungarian Hän |
| I | Icelandic Igbo Iloko Inari Sami Indonesian Ingush Inku Iranian Persian Iraqi Arabic Irish Istro Romanian Italian Ixcatlán Mazatec |
| J | Jamaican Creole English Japanese Javanese Jola-Fonyi Judeo-Tat |
| K | Kabardian Kabuverdianu Kaingang Kala Lagaw Ya Kalaallisut Kalenjin Kalmyk Kamba (Kenya) Kaonde Kaqchikel Kara-Kalpak Karachay-Balkar Karata Karelian Kashubian Kazakh Kekchí Kenzi, Mattoki Khasi Khetrani Khinalugh Kikuyu Kimbundu Kinyarwanda Kirghiz Kirmanjki Kituba (DRC) Kom (Cameroon) Kongo Konzo Kumyk Kven Finnish Kölsch K’iche’ |
| L | Ladin Ladino Lak Lakota Latgalian Lezghian Libyan Arabic Lithuanian Lombard Low German Lower Sorbian Lozi Luba-Lulua Lule Sami Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) Luxembourgish |
| M | Macedo-Romanian Macedonian Madurese Makonde Malagasy Malaysian Maltese Mam Mandinka Mandjak Mankanya Manx Maore Comorian Maori Mapudungun Marshallese Matsés Mauritian Creole Meriam Mir Meru Metlatónoc Mixtec Mezquital Otomi Minangkabau Mirandese Mizo Mi’kmaq Modern Greek Mohawk Moksha Mongolian Buriat Montenegrin Montenegrin Moroccan Arabic Munsee Murrinh-Patha Murui Huitoto Muslim Tat Muslim Tat Mwani Mískito |
| N | Naga Pidgin Navajo Ndonga Neapolitan Ngazidja Comorian Niuean Nobiin Nogai Nomatsiguenga North Azerbaijani North Azerbaijani North Marquesan North Mesopotamian Arabic North Ndebele Northern Hindko Northern Kurdish Northern Qiandong Miao Northern Sami Northern Uzbek Norwegian Nyanja Nyankole |
| O | Occitan Ojitlán Chinantec Old Prussian Omaha-Ponca Orma Oroqen Ossetian Otuho |
| P | Pahari-Potwari Palauan Pampanga Panjabi Papantla Totonac Papiamento Paraguayan Guaraní Pedi Picard Pichis Ashéninka Piemontese Pijin Pintupi-Luritja Pipil Pite Sami Pohnpeian Polish Pontic Greek Pontic Greek Pontic Greek Portuguese Potawatomi Purepecha Páez |
| Q | Qashqa’i Quechua |
| R | Romanian Romansh Rotokas Rundi Russian Russian Buriat Rusyn Rutul |
| S | Saidi Arabic Samoan Sanaani Arabic Sango Sangu (Tanzania) Saraiki Saramaccan Sardinian Scots Scottish Gaelic Secoya Sena Serbian Serbian Seri Seselwa Creole French Sharanahua Shawnee Shipibo-Conibo Shona Shuar Shughni Sicilian Silesian Sindhi Siona Skolt Sami Slovak Slovenian Soga Somali Soninke South Azerbaijani South Marquesan South Ndebele Southern Aymara Southern Hindko Southern Kurdish Southern Qiandong Mia Southern Sami Southern Sotho Southern Uzbek Spanish Standard Arabic Standard Estonin Standard Latvian Standard Malay Standard Malay Sundanese Swahili Swedish Swiss German |
| T | Tabassaran Tagalog Tahitian Tajik Talysh Talysh Tatar Ta’izzi-Adeni Arabic Tedim Chin Tetum Tetun Dili Tlingit Toba Tok Pisin Tokelau Tonga (Tonga Islands) Tonga (Zambia) Tosk Albanian Tsakhur Tsakhur Tumbuka Tunisian Arabic Turkish Turkmen Tuvalu Tuvinian Tzeltal Tzotzil |
| U | Uab Meto Udi Uighur Ukrainian Umbundu Ume Sami Upper Guinea Crioulo Upper Sorbian Urdu |
| V | Venetian Veps Vietnamese Vlax Romani Võro |
| W | Wallisian Walloon Walser Waray (Philippines) Warlpiri Wasa Wayuu Welsh West Central Oromo West-Central Limba Western Abnaki Western Frisian Western Panjabi Wiradjuri Wolof |
| X | Xhosa |
| Y | Yagua Yanesha’ Yao Yoruba Yucateco |
| Z | Zapotec Zarma Zulu Zuni Záparo |
| A | Algerian Arabic |
| B | Baharna Arabic Balochi |
| C | Central Kurdish |
| D | Dari Dogri (individual language) |
| E | Egyptian Arabic |
| G | Gulf Arabic |
| I | Inku Iranian Persian Iraqi Arabic |
| K | Khetrani |
| L | Libyan Arabic |
| M | Moroccan Arabic |
| N | North Mesopotamian Arabic Northern Hindko |
| P | Pahari-Potwari Panjabi |
| Q | Qashqa’i |
| S | Saidi Arabic Sanaani Arabic Saraiki Sindhi Southern Hindko Southern Kurdish Southern Uzbek Standard Arabic Standard Malay |
| T | Talysh Ta’izzi-Adeni Arabic Tunisian Arabic |
| U | Uighur Urdu |
| W | Western Panjabi |
| A | Abaza Adyghe Aghul Archi Avaric |
| B | Belarusian Bezhta Budukh Bulgarian |
| C | Chamalal Chechen Chinese Buriat Crimean Tatar |
| D | Dargwa Dido Dungan |
| E | Erzya |
| H | Halh Mongolian |
| I | Ingush |
| J | Judeo-Tat |
| K | Kabardian Kalmyk Karachay-Balkar Karata Kazakh Khinalugh Kirghiz Kumyk |
| L | Lak Lezghian |
| M | Macedonian Moksha Mongolian Buriat Montenegrin Muslim Tat |
| N | Nogai North Azerbaijani |
| O | Ossetian |
| P | Pontic Greek |
| R | Russian Russian Buriat Rusyn Rutul |
| S | Serbian Shughni |
| T | Tabassaran Tajik Tatar Tsakhur Tuvinian |
| U | Udi Ukrainian |
| M | Modern Greek |
| P | Pontic Greek |
| A | Abua Acheron Achinese Acholi Achuar-Shiwiar Afar Afrikaans Aguaruna Ahtna Alekano Aleut Alonquin Amahuaca Amarakaeri Amis Anaang Andaandi, Dongolawi Anuta Arabela Aragonese Arbëreshë Albanian Asháninka Ashéninka Perené Asturian Atayal Awa-Cuaiquer |
| B | Balinese Balkan Romani Banjar Bari Basque Batak Dairi Batak Karo Batak Mandailing Batak Simalungun Batak Toba Bemba (Zambia) Bena (Tanzania) Biali Bikol Bini Bislama Bora Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo Bosnian Breton Buginese Bushi |
| C | Candoshi-Shapra Caquinte Caribbean Hindustani Cashibo-Cacataibo Cashinahua Catalan Cebuano Central Aymara Central Kurdish Central Nahuatl Chachi Chamorro Chavacano Chayahuita Chiga Chiltepec Chinantec Chokwe Chuukese Cimbrian Cofán Cook Islands Māori Cornish Corsican Creek Crimean Tatar Croatian Czech |
| D | Danish Dehu Dimli Dutch |
| E | Eastern Arrernte Eastern Oromo Efik English |
| F | Faroese Fijian Filipino Finnish French Friulian |
| G | Gagauz Galician Ganda Garifuna German Gheg Albanian Gilbertese Gooniyandi Gourmanchéma Guadeloupean Creole French Gusii Gwichin |
| H | Haitian Hani Hassaniyya Hawaiian Hiligaynon Hopi Huastec Hungarian Hän |
| I | Icelandic Igbo Iloko Inari Sami Indonesian Irish Istro Romanian Italian Ixcatlán Mazatec |
| J | Jamaican Creole English Japanese Javanese Jola-Fonyi |
| K | Kabuverdianu Kaingang Kala Lagaw Ya Kalaallisut Kalenjin Kamba (Kenya) Kaonde Kaqchikel Kara-Kalpak Karelian Kashubian Kekchí Kenzi, Mattoki Khasi Kikuyu Kimbundu Kinyarwanda Kirmanjki Kituba (DRC) Kom (Cameroon) Kongo Konzo Kven Finnish Kölsch K’iche’ |
| L | Ladin Ladino Lakota Latgalian Lithuanian Lombard Low German Lower Sorbian Lozi Luba-Lulua Lule Sami Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) Luxembourgish |
| M | Macedo-Romanian Madurese Makonde Malagasy Malaysian Maltese Mam Mandinka Mandjak Mankanya Manx Maore Comorian Maori Mapudungun Marshallese Matsés Mauritian Creole Meriam Mir Meru Metlatónoc Mixtec Mezquital Otomi Minangkabau Mirandese Mizo Mi’kmaq Mohawk Montenegrin Munsee Murrinh-Patha Murui Huitoto Muslim Tat Mwani Mískito |
| N | Naga Pidgin Navajo Ndonga Neapolitan Ngazidja Comorian Niuean Nobiin Nomatsiguenga North Azerbaijani North Marquesan North Ndebele Northern Kurdish Northern Qiandong Miao Northern Sami Northern Uzbek Norwegian Nyanja Nyankole |
| O | Occitan Ojitlán Chinantec Old Prussian Omaha-Ponca Orma Oroqen Otuho |
| P | Palauan Pampanga Papantla Totonac Papiamento Paraguayan Guaraní Pedi Picard Pichis Ashéninka Piemontese Pijin Pintupi-Luritja Pipil Pite Sami Pohnpeian Polish Pontic Greek Portuguese Potawatomi Purepecha Páez |
| Q | Quechua |
| R | Romanian Romansh Rotokas Rundi |
| S | Samoan Sango Sangu (Tanzania) Saramaccan Sardinian Scots Scottish Gaelic Secoya Sena Serbian Seri Seselwa Creole French Sharanahua Shawnee Shipibo-Conibo Shona Shuar Sicilian Silesian Siona Skolt Sami Slovak Slovenian Soga Somali Soninke South Azerbaijani South Marquesan South Ndebele Southern Aymara Southern Qiandong Mia Southern Sami Southern Sotho Spanish Standard Estonin Standard Latvian Standard Malay Sundanese Swahili Swedish Swiss German |
| T | Tagalog Tahitian Talysh Tedim Chin Tetum Tetun Dili Tlingit Toba Tok Pisin Tokelau Tonga (Tonga Islands) Tonga (Zambia) Tosk Albanian Tsakhur Tumbuka Turkish Turkmen Tuvalu Tzeltal Tzotzil |
| U | Uab Meto Umbundu Ume Sami Upper Guinea Crioulo Upper Sorbian |
| V | Venetian Veps Vietnamese Vlax Romani Võro |
| W | Wallisian Walloon Walser Waray (Philippines) Warlpiri Wasa Wayuu Welsh West Central Oromo West-Central Limba Western Abnaki Western Frisian Wiradjuri Wolof |
| X | Xhosa |
| Y | Yagua Yanesha’ Yao Yoruba Yucateco |
| Z | Zapotec Zarma Zulu Zuni Záparo |