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  5. Kotori Rose

Kotori Rose

Kotori Rose delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Brian Jacob63% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Kotori Rose

01

Best Font Pairings for Kotori Rose

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Kotori Rose, including combinations with Memories, Stoked and Avalanche.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Kotori Rose
02

Test Kotori Rose Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Kotori Rose with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif characteristics.

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

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In Context

Kotori Rose Specimen Gallery

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Kotori Rose Editorial Specimen

Kotori Rose in Editorial Context

Kotori Rose is a sans serif typeface by Brian Jacob suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Brian Jacob

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Kotori Rose demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Kotori Rose supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Brian Jacob, Kotori Rose balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Kotori Rose Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Kotori Rose Specimen

Kotori Rose

Kotori Rose is a sans serif typeface by Brian Jacob built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

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Tagline Pairings

Kotori Rose— sans serif typeface
Kotori RoseBy Brian Jacob
Kotori RoseTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Kotori Rose Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Kotori Rose

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Kotori Rose primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Kotori Rose section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Kotori Rose subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Kotori Rose content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Kotori Rose minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Kotori Rose smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Kotori Rose Body Typography

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

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

When setting Kotori Rose 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.

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

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxKotori Rose delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxKotori Rose italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxKotori Rose bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxKotori Rose typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxKotori Rose typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Kotori Rose'; }

Quick Start

Adding Kotori Rose to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Kotori Rose in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Kotori Rose', 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        'kotori-rose': ['Kotori Rose', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-kotori-rose">Your text here</p>

About

Kotori Rose Background & Features

Brian Jacob
Sans Serif
Open Source

Kotori Rose typeface delivers contemporary cool geometric grotesk forms through a complete family suited to refined professional applications. Brian Jacob's design provides clean character for corporate communications, editorial layouts, and interface typography. The geometric foundation creates consistent rhythm while contemporary proportions support screen rendering. Kotori Rose's modern aesthetic appeals to design studios, tech companies, and publications. Both display and body text benefit from balanced construction. Pair with a humanist serif for warmth.

Kotori Rose was designed by Brian Jacob. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Kotori Rose features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for screen-first digital products and web applications.

Kotori Rose is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Kotori Rose

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Kotori Rose

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

1

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. TypeSmith classifies Kotori Rose within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 63). Kotori Rose handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Brian Jacob. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Sans Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Kotori Rose

Kotori Rose falls within the Lineal typeface, drawn from the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for screen-first digital products and web applications. TypeSmith indexes Kotori Rose in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Kotori Rose
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

63
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Using Kotori Rose Accessibly

Kotori Rose falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Legibility Analysis: Kotori Rose

Kotori Rose draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: Kotori Rose

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Eye Strain Considerations for Kotori Rose

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

Kotori Rose Accessibility Recommendations

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

Kotori Rose Usage Guidelines

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Kotori Rose. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Kotori Rose in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Kotori Rose Font Files

Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

Aa
100
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200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
900

Internationalization

Kotori Rose 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 111 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Font License Details

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.

Kotori Rose 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 Kotori Rose ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.