In 2020–2021, Yrsa and Rasa received a major update. See the Yrsa & Rasa project page for details. The project has been documented in several articles. The Gujarati is based on David Březina’s Skolar Gujarati. The Latin part is based on Merriweather by Eben Sorkin. It is a deliberate experiment in remixing existing typefaces to produce a new one. What makes the Yrsa & Rasa project different is the design approach. In terms of glyphs included Rasa is a superset of Yrsa, it includes the complete Latin. Rasa supports a wide array of basic and compound syllables used in Gujarati. In Yrsa, a special consideration was given to Central and East European languages and proper shaping of their accents. Both type families are intended for continuous reading on the web (longer articles in online news, magazines, blogs). Rasa is the name of the Gujarati type family. The design was done by Anna Giedryś ( and David Březina ( The font engineering was done by Johannes Neumeier ( is the name of the Latin-only type family. The fonts support over 331 languages in the Latin script and 3 languages in the Gujarati script (Gujarati, Kachchi, Avestan).
Yrsa and Rasa are open-source type families published by Rosetta with generous financial support from Google.
