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Rosario

Humanist sans with classic proportions, subtle contrast and old-style figures, variable from Light to Bold.

Sans Serif 10 styles · variable by Omnibus-Type OFL

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Rosario is a humanist sans serif from Omnibus-Type, designed by Héctor Gatti with classic proportions, subtle stroke contrast and old-style figures. Rosario is a variable font with a weight axis from Light 300 to Bold 700 and matching italics, ten styles in all. Rosario is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits magazines and journals.

Rosario font preview card
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Designer
Omnibus-Type
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
10 5 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 300–700
Glyphs
794
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.201
Used for
Body textEditorialElegant

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

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Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

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

Rosario 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 Rosario

Rosario is a sans serif typeface with the proportions of a classical roman. Stroke thickness varies slightly, stems widen a touch towards their ends, and the specimen shows old-style figures that rise and dip like lowercase letters, plus a capital Q with a long sweeping tail. The result sits closer to a serif text face with its serifs removed than to a geometric sans. Héctor Gatti designed the family and named it after his home city; according to the official notes it began in 2003 as a typeface for private use and became a variable family in September 2019. The weight axis runs from 300 to 700 with five named weights, and a second file holds the italics. The 794 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Omnibus-Type publishes Rosario and recommends it for magazines and academic journals.

Where Rosario works

Magazine articles
Classic proportions and slight contrast keep long columns even, and five weights cover text, subheads and captions.
Academic journals and papers
Old-style figures blend into running text, which helps pages full of dates, citations and page numbers.
A sans companion to a serif
Because its skeleton follows roman proportions, Rosario sets sidebars and captions beside a serif text face without a jolt.
Cultural and literary identities
The long-tailed Q and gently flared stems give titles and names a quiet, bookish character.
Text in several languages
Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets bring in Turkish, Polish, Czech, Romanian and Vietnamese.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 794 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 2019 The Rosario Project Authors (https://github.com/Omnibus-Type/Rosario)

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 Rosario

Mirza Serif

Rosario is sans serif and Mirza is serif (4 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Arbutus Slab Slab Serif

Rosario is sans serif and Arbutus Slab is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Azeret Mono Monospace

Azeret Mono is a monospace family (9 weights) for code and figures next to Rosario as the text face.

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

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Old-style figures in the specimen
The default numerals shown have ascenders and descenders. In tables they do not share one height.
Weight range 300 to 700
Light is the thinnest weight and Bold the heaviest.
Two variable files
The roman and the italic are separate variable fonts, each with the full weight axis.

FAQs

Is Rosario free for commercial use?

Rosario can be used in commercial projects without a fee under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The license also permits modifying and redistributing the fonts, but they cannot be sold on their own, and derivatives have to keep the same license.

Who designed Rosario?

Rosario was designed by Héctor Gatti and is published by Omnibus-Type. The official notes say the family is named after the designer's city.

How many weights does Rosario have?

Rosario has five named weights, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700, each with an italic.

Is Rosario a variable font?

Yes. Rosario is a variable font with a weight axis from 300 to 700; the official notes date the conversion to September 2019.

Which languages does Rosario support?

Rosario includes the letters needed for English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Turkish, Polish, Vietnamese and other Latin-script languages.

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