TASA Explorer
Designed By
Local Remote, Weizhong Zhang
5 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
TASA Explorer · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
5 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download TASA Explorer ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Countdown resumes at T minus 9
A Clear Hierarchy
TASA Explorer · 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.
5 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Countdown resumes at T minus 9
Medium500
Countdown resumes at T minus 9
Semi Bold600
Countdown resumes at T minus 9
Bold700
Countdown resumes at T minus 9
Extra Bold800
Countdown resumes at T minus 9
The first TASA Explorer, the 2023 one, had an x-height so large that its makers only meant it for display, with very little optical correction in it, a face for big sizes and that was all. When Weizhong Zhang went back to it in 2025 he brought the x-height down a little, smoothed the letters and loosened the spacing, and the project now offers the result for text as well as headlines.
It was drawn by the studio Local Remote for the Taiwan Space Agency’s rebrand, as the adventurous half of a pair with TASA Orbiter. Terminals are cut vertically and the corners come to sharp angles. There is also some contrast between thick and thin strokes, which a geometric sans usually goes without, and it keeps the round letters from going stiff.
Zhang is a Taipei designer whose work is mostly bilingual, Latin set against Hanzi, and perhaps that is why the redesign added the letters and accents for Taiwanese romanization, Tâi-lô and POJ, on top of the usual Latin set.
5 weights, Regular up to Extra Bold, no italics. We would keep it to headings and short blocks, since Explorer has kept enough of its display manners that a long article in it would get loud, but tabular figures, fractions and a slashed zero are in there when a poster has to carry numbers.
Characters & Figures
521 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
TASA Explorer
5 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 258 KB ↓- Version
- 2.011
- 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/tasa-explorer/tasa-explorer.css">
body {
font-family: 'TASA Explorer', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.
TASA Explorer Heading · TASA Explorer 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.