Lisu Bosa
Designed By
SIL International
16 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Lisu Bosa · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
16 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Lisu Bosa ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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Village school reader, book 2
A Page In Lisu Bosa
Lisu Bosa · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
16 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Extra Light200
Village school reader, book 2
Extra Light Italic200
Village school reader, book 2
Light300
Village school reader, book 2
Light Italic300
Village school reader, book 2
Regular400
Village school reader, book 2
Italic400
Village school reader, book 2
Medium500
Village school reader, book 2
Medium Italic500
Village school reader, book 2
Semi Bold600
Village school reader, book 2
Semi Bold Italic600
Village school reader, book 2
Bold700
Village school reader, book 2
Bold Italic700
Village school reader, book 2
Extra Bold800
Village school reader, book 2
Extra Bold Italic800
Village school reader, book 2
Black900
Village school reader, book 2
Black Italic900
Village school reader, book 2
Lisu Bosa starts from LisuTzimu, the regular David Morse first drew in 1998. SIL International revised it from 2019 on, added bold and italic styles, and has since opened it out into 16 styles, Extra Light to Black, every weight with an italic.
The goal, as SIL puts it, is a free font family for all current languages and writing systems that use the Lisu script, also known as Fraser. Annie Olsen and Victor Gaultney worked on it with Morse. The Latin glyphs come from Adobe, with Frank Grießhammer credited for them.
Italics in 8 weights are what we would point to first. A Lisu school reader or newsletter can mark emphasis or a book title the way an English one would, and the italics run a little narrower than the romans, so they don’t stretch a line.
Characters & Figures
340 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 318 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Lisu Bosa
16 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 424 KB ↓- Version
- 2.000
- 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/lisu-bosa-3/lisu-bosa-3.css">
body {
font-family: 'Lisu Bosa', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Lisu Bosa Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.