Rasa

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Weights and styles

• Light 300Rasa Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Rasa Regular Italic
• Medium 500Rasa Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Rasa SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Rasa Bold Bold Italic

Rasa 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 Rasa

Rasa is a serif family made for long articles on screens, such as online news, magazines and blogs, in the Gujarati and Latin scripts. The Latin in the specimen is a sturdy text face: moderate contrast, wedge-shaped serifs, a large x-height and open counters, with a slightly narrow build that saves space in columns. According to the official notes, Rasa was a conscious exercise in remixing typefaces that already existed, and its Latin started from Eben Sorkin's Merriweather. The Gujarati supports the script's basic and compound syllables. A Latin-only sibling is published as Yrsa; Rasa contains all of Yrsa's Latin, although that Latin may be adjusted to suit the Gujarati. The family is variable on one axis, weight, from 300 to 700, with five named weights from Light to Bold in upright and italic. The fonts hold 1,327 glyphs.

Where Rasa works

Gujarati news and blog articles

The family was drawn for continuous reading on the web and covers basic and compound Gujarati syllables.

Bilingual Gujarati and English sites

Latin and Gujarati are tuned to each other, so mixed paragraphs keep an even weight.

Long-form reading in Latin

A large x-height, open counters and wedge serifs hold up in body sizes on screens.

Typographic hierarchy from one family

Five weights from Light 300 to Bold 700 with italics cover text, emphasis, subheads and captions.

Vietnamese text

The Vietnamese subset is included in the Latin part.

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

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Gujarati. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: gujarati, 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

Fonts that pair with Rasa

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 Rasa 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.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Rasa";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rasa-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Rasa";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rasa-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Rasa", serif;
}

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

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Rasa:ital,wght@0,300..700;1,300..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Yrsa is the Latin-only sibling

For projects without Gujarati, the same Latin is published separately as Yrsa.

Two variable files

The package holds an upright and an italic variable TTF, each covering 300 to 700. Static instances are not included.

No Cyrillic or Greek

The scripts are Gujarati and Latin, with Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

FAQs

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