Rosarivo

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rosarivo Regular Italic

About Rosarivo

Rosarivo is a serif typeface designed with letterpress printing in mind. The official notes tie its pale colour to that origin: the strokes are thinner than those of a typical text roman, so the page looks light and delicate. The specimen shows clear stroke contrast with a slanted, pen-like stress, a small x-height with long ascenders and descenders, a diamond-shaped dot on the i and old-style numerals. The official notes say it was drawn for long texts set with generous line spacing, and that it grew out of work presented in 2011 on the typeface design postgraduate course of the University of Buenos Aires. The family has a Regular and an Italic in a single weight, with 240 glyphs covering Western European Latin. Pablo Ugerman is the designer.

Where Rosarivo works

Letterpress stationery

Rosarivo was conceived for letterpress, and its fine strokes and serifs suit cards and letterheads printed that way.

Literary and poetry layouts

Long ascenders and descenders ask for open line spacing, which suits verse and airy book pages.

Invitations and menus

The light colour and calligraphic contrast give names and courses a formal, quiet tone.

Titles and names in italic

A true Italic is included, so a book title or a foreign phrase can be set without switching family.

Pull quotes

At larger sizes the diamond dots and pen-shaped serifs become visible details.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Rosarivo

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 Rosarivo 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: "Rosarivo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rosarivo-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Rosarivo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Rosarivo-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Rosarivo 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=Rosarivo:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No bold

Rosarivo has one weight. Regular and Italic are the only two styles, so hierarchy has to come from size or capitals.

Lighter than usual text type

The official notes say the face has a paler colour than a typical text roman; small sizes on low-resolution screens can look thin.

Western European Latin

The font has 240 glyphs. French is covered except for the rare capital Ÿ, and no Latin Extended set is included.

FAQs

Collections with Rosarivo

• Elegant serif fonts for wedding invitations

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