Yrsa

Try Yrsa

Weights and styles

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

Yrsa 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 Yrsa

Yrsa is a serif family made for long stretches of text on screens, such as news articles, magazine pieces and blog posts. It belongs to the Yrsa-Rasa project at Rosetta: Rasa is the sibling that adds the Gujarati script, while Yrsa carries the Latin alone. The official description calls the project a deliberate remix of existing typefaces, with the Latin starting from Eben Sorkin's Merriweather, and notes particular care for Central and East European languages and the shapes of their accents. In the specimen the letters are compact, with sturdy bracketed serifs, moderate contrast and a generous x-height. The family is variable on the weight axis from 300 to 700, with five named weights in roman and italic. Its two variable files hold 877 glyphs across Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets.

Where Yrsa works

Long articles on the web

Yrsa was drawn for continuous reading online, and Regular with its italic covers body text and emphasis.

Online magazines and blogs

Five weights from Light to Bold give headings, standfirsts and captions within the same serif.

Central and East European text

The designers gave special attention to accents for these languages, which matters in Polish, Czech or Hungarian copy.

Sites that also publish in Gujarati

Rasa, the sibling family, adds Gujarati, so a Latin page in Yrsa has a matching counterpart.

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

Fonts that pair with Yrsa

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

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Yrsa 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=Yrsa:ital,wght@0,300..700;1,300..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Weights run from 300 to 700

There is no weight heavier than Bold and none lighter than Light.

Two variable files

Roman and italic are separate variable fonts on the same 300 to 700 axis.

Yrsa and Rasa are separate families

Rasa includes Gujarati and a Latin that may be adjusted to it; Yrsa is the Latin-only family.

FAQs

Collections with Yrsa

• Serif fonts for long reading on screens

  Text serifs drawn for screens or for long reading: large x-heights, moderate contrast and real italics for articles, blogs and documentation.

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