Yrsa
Designed By
Rosetta, Anna Giedryś, David Březina
10 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Yrsa · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
10 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Yrsa ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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A Page In Yrsa
Yrsa · 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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Rosetta called Yrsa a deliberate experiment in remixing. Anna Giedryś and David Březina took existing typefaces as their starting point and rebuilt them into a new pair: the Latin of Yrsa began with Eben Sorkin’s Merriweather, and the Gujarati of its sister family Rasa began with Březina’s own Skolar Gujarati.
What came out is a text face for continuous reading on the web, the long article in an online newspaper or magazine. The team spent particular care on Central and East European languages and on getting their accents to sit and shape properly, and the whole set reaches more than 92 languages. Vietnamese is included.
Rasa is the version to reach for if you need Gujarati or Kachchi. It contains the complete Latin too, but there the Latin may be adjusted to suit the Gujarati, so for Latin-only work Yrsa is the cleaner choice.
- 10 styles, Light to Bold, every weight with its italic, and the italics run noticeably narrower than the romans.
Contextual alternates, fractions, a slashed zero and tabular figures come with it as well. Our suggestion would be Regular at a generous size and line spacing; the small letters are modest in height, and a body size a step up from the usual default would make the most of it.
Characters & Figures
685 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Yrsa
10 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 684 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/yrsa/yrsa.css">
body {
font-family: 'Yrsa', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Yrsa 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.