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Asap

A sans serif with subtly rounded corners, now variable in weight (100–900) and width (75–125).

Sans Serif 18 styles · variable by Omnibus-Type OFL

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Asap is a sans serif family with slightly rounded corners, designed by Pablo Cosgaya and the Omnibus-Type team for screen use. Asap is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900 and a width axis from 75 to 125, plus italics. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits interfaces and body text.

Asap font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Omnibus-Type
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
18 9 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900, Width 75–125
Glyphs
788
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 3.002
Used for
Body textInterfacesBranding

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Asap

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Asap; the download contains the complete files.

Asap font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Asap specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Asap Thin Thin Italic
  • ExtraLight 200Asap ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
  • Light 300Asap Light Light Italic
  • Regular 400Asap Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Asap Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Asap SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Asap Bold Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold 800Asap ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
  • Black 900Asap Black Black Italic

Asap is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Asap

Asap is a sans serif family whose name is short for “as soon as possible”. Its corners and stroke ends are gently rounded, a detail visible in the specimen on the feet of A and the tips of v, w and y, while the overall shapes stay open and upright. The official notes say the styles share standardised character widths, so a line keeps its length when the style changes. Asap became a variable font in 2021 and gained a width axis and a wider weight range in October 2022: weight now runs from 100 to 900 and width from 75 to 125. Nine named weights with italics give 18 styles. The fonts hold 788 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Asap derives from Ancha, a typeface by Pablo Cosgaya and Hector Gatti.

Where Asap works

Interfaces where emphasis must not shift the layout
According to the official notes, the styles keep the same character widths, so making a label bold does not change where the line ends.
Responsive headings
The width axis from 75 to 125 lets a heading tighten on a phone and widen on a desktop within one font file.
Body text on screens
Open letter shapes and softened corners, seen in the specimen, give Regular an even texture in paragraphs.
Brand typography
Thin 100 to Black 900 with italics covers display lines, subheads and legal small print in the same voice.
Sites in Vietnamese
The 788 glyphs include the stacked accents Vietnamese needs.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 788 glyphs.

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic
  • Catalan
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian
  • Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2018 The Asap Project Authors (https://github.com/Omnibus-Type/Asap)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Asap

Asap Condensed Sans Serif

Asap Condensed is the narrow version of the same design in static files, for labels and tables that sit beside Asap text.

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Asap on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Asap";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Asap-Italic-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Asap";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Asap-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Asap", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Asap with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Two variable files
Roman and italic each come as one variable file with both the weight and the width axis. Static files are not in the package.
Width axis from 75 to 125
A value of 100 is the normal width; 75 is condensed and 125 expanded.
A separate condensed family exists
Asap Condensed is published as its own family of static files.

FAQs

Is Asap free for commercial use?

Yes. Asap is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The fonts cannot be sold on their own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Asap?

Asap is designed by Pablo Cosgaya and the Omnibus-Type team; Andrés Torresi collaborated on it. The design goes back to Ancha, by Pablo Cosgaya and Hector Gatti.

How many weights does Asap have?

Asap has nine named weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, each with an italic: 18 styles. The weight axis also allows any value in between.

Is Asap a variable font?

Yes. Asap is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900 and a width axis from 75 to 125.

What does the name Asap mean?

Asap stands for “as soon as possible”, according to the official description of the family.

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Collections with Asap

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    Variable families in which letter width is adjustable as well as weight, from slight narrowing for copy-fitting to a full condensed-to-wide range.

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