Sawarabi Gothic
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
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1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/sawarabi-gothic 2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Sawarabi Gothic", 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
/* Please select at least one weight and style */ Background & Story
Sawarabi Gothic (さわらびゴシック) is a Japanese font by mshio. Carefully designed for high legibility, it works well in small text sizes. It already has many hiragana, katakana, ruled lines, and so on, but it does not yet have enough kanji glyphs. Only 4,469 kanji are available in this version, and the project is under active development. There is also another related family, Sawarabi Mincho.
6,945 glyphs. Now released under the SIL Open Font License.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource/sawarabi-gothic Designed by
mshio
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License
OFL-1.1