Dasa

Name: Dasa
Author: Dan Reynolds

Dasa captures organic, human warmth with flowing strokes that add personality to your designs.

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Handwritingby Dan Reynolds86% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Dasa

Best Font Pairings for Dasa

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Dasa, including combinations with Ignotum, Night Halloween and For Personal Gain.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Dasa with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Character Set

Dasa Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Dasa

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Dasa, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Dasa demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Dasa for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Dasa small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Dasa delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Dasa italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Dasa bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Dasa typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Dasa typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Dasa'; }

Quick Start

Using Dasa in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Dasa:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Dasa:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Dasa';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Dasa:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Dasa', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Dasa', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'dasa': ['Dasa', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-dasa">Your text here</p>

About

Dasa's Details

Dan Reynolds

Handwriting

Open Source

Dasa font is a handwriting typeface expressing casual character through cursive cute hand-drawn handwriting flowing construction for ten-based aesthetics. The organic letterforms project flowing warmth suitable for numbered branding, dasa (ten) themes, and design projects celebrating dasa typography. Casual cursive cute forms create flowing presence while hand-drawn influence adds authentic character. Effective for numbered products, counting applications, and flowing communications.

Dasa was created by Dan Reynolds. Known for sans-serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Dasa's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Dasa features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for greeting cards and informal stationery.

Dasa is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Dasa

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Dasa

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Dasa's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Handwriting analysis. Typographic analysis places Dasa within the Scripts (Casual / Handwritten) tradition, characterized by Disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and Irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. Handwriting fonts gained popularity in the 1990s digital type boom, offering an approachable alternative to formal scripts. Key technical strength: randomization features for natural variation per glyph.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 86). Dasa performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts. More legible than formal scripts due to disconnected letters, but the irregular baseline limits sustained reading.

Design Heritage

Designed by Dan Reynolds. Known for sans-serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Dasa's stroke consistency and typographic color across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Dasa

Dasa is classified as a Scripts typeface, rooted in the tradition where handwriting fonts gained popularity in the 1990s digital type boom, offering an approachable alternative to formal scripts. Its distinctive disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure make it well-suited for pull quotes and editorial accent text. TypeSmith indexes Dasa in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Dasa

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Related Fonts: Dasa

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Dasa based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Dasa Accessibility Profile

Dasa scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

Dasa's Legibility

Dasa draws legibility from its disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: Dasa

More legible than formal scripts due to disconnected letters, but the irregular baseline limits sustained reading. Best at medium sizes for short passages. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Dasa for Long-Form Content

Dasa provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Dasa Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Dasa. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Dasa at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Best Practices for Using Dasa

Combine with a geometric sans-serif for modern contrast or a clean slab serif for grounded warmth. Avoid pairing with script or calligraphic faces. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Dasa. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Dasa in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Dasa Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

Internationalization

Dasa Multilingual Support

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

This font encodes 424 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

License Type

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Dasa is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Dasa ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'dasa': ['Dasa', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-dasa">Your text here</p>

Dasa

Best Ways to Use Dasa

Best Font Pairings for Dasa

Test Dasa Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Dasa

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Dasa Accessibility Profile

Dasa's Legibility

Readability Profile: Dasa

Dasa for Long-Form Content

Dasa Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Dasa

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Dasa

Best Ways to Use Dasa

Best Font Pairings for Dasa

Test Dasa Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Dasa

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Dasa Accessibility Profile

Dasa's Legibility

Readability Profile: Dasa

Dasa for Long-Form Content

Dasa Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Dasa

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal