Asap
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/asap 2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/asap/wght.css'; 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Asap Variable", sans-serif;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* asap-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Asap Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/asap:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
} Background & Story
Asap ("as soon as possible") is a contemporary sans-serif family with subtle rounded corners. This family, specially developed for screen and desktop use, offers a standarised character width on all styles, which means lines of text remain the same length. This useful feature allows users to change type styles on-the-go without reflowing a text body.
Asap has been upgraded to a variable font in 2021, and in October 2022, this variable is completed by a width axis and a larger scope of weight. Axes weight now go from Thin to Black and width from Condensed to Expanded.
Asap is based on Ancha (Pablo Cosgaya, Hector Gatti). It is designed by Pablo Cosgaya and Omnibus-Type Team, with the collaboration of Andrés Torresi. To contribute, see github.com/Omnibus-Type/Asap.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/asap Designed by
Omnibus-Type
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License
OFL-1.1