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Noto Sans Bassa Vah

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Google

4 Styles Sans Serif

Letters for
every day.

Noto Sans Bassa Vah · Regular

Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.

4 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.

Download Noto Sans Bassa Vah ↓

TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

A primer for the Bassa language

A Clear Hierarchy

Noto Sans Bassa Vah · 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.

Platform 04Ticket Office →

4 Styles,
One Family

Every available style is shown below in its own font file.

Regular400

A primer for the Bassa language

Medium500

A primer for the Bassa language

Semi Bold600

A primer for the Bassa language

Bold700

A primer for the Bassa language

The Bassa people once used a sign system to avoid slave traders, and Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis developed the Bassa Vah alphabet from it. Colonial powers later suppressed the script, and it fell out of use.

It is written left to right and has capital and small letters: 23 consonants, 7 vowels and 5 tone marks. The language it serves is spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and by communities in Brazil and the Caribbean.

Noto’s sans covers the Unicode block in 4 weights, Regular, Medium, Semi Bold and Bold, with Latin beside it. For a primer or a community newsletter putting the script back into print, Bold headings over Regular text is the setup we would start from.

Noto Sans Bassa Vah type specimen with letters and figures
Noto Sans Bassa Vah · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

372 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 368 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
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The Font Files

Download
Noto Sans Bassa Vah

4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 93 KB ↓
Version
2.002
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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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/noto-sans-bassa-vah-3/noto-sans-bassa-vah-3.css">

body {
  font-family: 'Noto Sans Bassa Vah', sans-serif;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.

Noto Sans Bassa Vah Heading · Noto Sans Bassa Vah 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.