Yorick

A typewriter revival that refuses to look digital

Yorick is a monospace slab serif family by Matthieu Cortat, developed from 2016 and released in 2018, sourced from a Nebiolo typefoundry specimen (model 3402U, dated 1920 or earlier). The design preserves a typewriter slab form — described as Pica in the Olivetti naming system — while retaining mild thick-thin contrast drawn from the Imperial style, deliberately avoiding a digital or geometric appearance. It comprises four styles with Latin and Cyrillic character sets, including localised alternates for Romanian, Moldovan, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian.

Set in Yorick

Insights

The source reference is a specific Nebiolo specimen entry (model 3402U), giving the revival a traceable archival starting point rather than a generic typewriter aesthetic.
Thick-thin contrast was retained from the Imperial style, introducing a classical register into an otherwise industrial monospace form.
The italic is drawn as a true italic, not an oblique — an uncommon choice in monospace type design.
Localised alternates span both scripts: Romanian and Moldovan under Latin, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian under Cyrillic — indicating orthographic attention beyond a standard dual-script extension.