Dorsa
Designed By
Santiago Orozco
1 Style Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Dorsa · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
1 style available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Dorsa ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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Rooftops after the rain
A Clear Hierarchy
Dorsa · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Departures09:00 →
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
1 Style,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Rooftops after the rain
Santiago Orozco first met Empire in an architecture book in his college library, while doing his homework there. Empire was a tall, tight condensed face that American Type Founders issued in 1937, and Dorsa is his reading of it, slightly less squeezed than the original so it would work for titles.
Empire never had a lowercase. Orozco studied skyline-style typefaces and drew one from scratch, starting with an o that is not quite geometric: it swells outward, and its white space stays the same through the design. Every other letter was built on modules taken from that o. The f was drawn so it never runs into an accent, and the A keeps a traditional peak because he thought it read better that way.
It is very narrow, and a word in it takes not much more than a third of the width Arial would need. Orozco’s own advice is to open the letter spacing, and he is right, since set tight the stems crowd each other.
Characters & Figures
210 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 208 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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Dorsa
1 TTF style with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 13 KB ↓- Version
- 1.002
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/dorsa/dorsa.css">
body {
font-family: 'Dorsa', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
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Dorsa Heading · Dorsa Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.