Café-concert font by Yves Michel is a free serif font with elegant vintage notes that’s both expressive and sophisticated. Its unusual design refers to and visualizes the idea of slow, smooth rhythmic motion that can be described as both whimsical and magical. With long and slender serifs, the typeface’s delicate structure and organic flow are attention-grabbing, to say the least.
Fully capitalized, this font is great for titles, headlines, logotypes, magazine/book covers, and any other print design projects. It can make waves on websites also, and serve remarkably well in digital advertisements and posters. Turn to it for your branding assignments and make a bold impression with packaging designs.
The free font is free to use in personal projects. For a commercial project, pay a one-time fee to the author to obtain a license.
This font is inspired by and digitized from an exercise in penmanship from "The Zanerian Manual of Alphabets and Engrossing," a book digitized by David Grimes.
The uppercase letters are quite faithfully rendered, while the rest, including lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols, are my creations.
The French Caf-concert, also known as "Caf chantant," was a type of musical establishment, equivalent to the English "music-hall." The Golden Age of the "caf'conc'\" occurred around 1900, during the "Belle Époque," a period celebrated for the flourishing of Art Nouveau, which this font seeks to illustrate.