Rasa
Designed By
Rosetta, Anna Giedryś, David Březina
10 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Rasa · Regular
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10 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Rasa ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Chapter 4: The monsoon letters
A Page In Rasa
Rasa · 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.
10 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Light300
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Light Italic300
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Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
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Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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2 existing typefaces were taken apart to make Rasa, on purpose, as an experiment in remixing. The Latin started from Eben Sorkin’s Merriweather. The Gujarati started from Skolar Gujarati, which David Březina had drawn earlier. Anna Giedryś and Březina then reworked both until they could share a page, and the Latin in Rasa is allowed to bend where the Gujarati needs it to.
The goal was continuous reading on the web, long articles in online news and magazines. So the Gujarati side handles a wide range of basic and compound syllables, enough for Gujarati and Kachchi, and the Latin covers more than 92 languages. If you only need the Latin, the same project ships it separately as Yrsa, which has slightly fewer glyphs.
5 weights, Light to Bold, each with an italic, came to Google Fonts in June 2016. The Latin is narrower than Georgia by a fair margin, and the italics are tighter again, so a quoted sentence in italic takes up clearly less room than its roman neighbors.
- For figures there are lining, tabular and proportional sets plus a slashed zero, and 3 stylistic sets hold the alternates.
We would use it the way it was planned, as the reading face of a Gujarati news site or a bilingual magazine, at 18 px or so with comfortable leading, and let a bolder sans handle the headlines.
Characters & Figures
777 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Rasa
10 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 1005 KB ↓- Version
- 2.004
- 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/rasa/rasa.css">
body {
font-family: 'Rasa', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Rasa 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.