Yrsa
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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1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/yrsa 2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/yrsa/wght.css'; 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Yrsa Variable", 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
/* yrsa-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Yrsa Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/yrsa:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
} Background & Story
Intended for continuous reading on the web (longer articles in online news, magazines, blogs), Yrsa supports over 92 languages. A special consideration was given to Central and East European languages and proper shaping of their accents. A version that also supports 2 languages in the Gujarati script (Gujarati and Kachchi), is available as Rasa. In terms of glyphs included Rasa is a superset of Yrsa and includes the complete Latin, but in Rasa the Latin may be adjusted to support the primary Gujarati font.
It is a deliberate experiment in remixing existing typefaces: The Latin part began with Eben Sorkin's Merriweather. The Gujarati began with David Březina’s Skolar Gujarati.
To contribute, see github.com/rosettatype/yrsa.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/yrsa Designed by
Rosetta, Anna Giedryś, David Březina
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License
OFL-1.1