Dasa is an informal, handwriting-style font. When we write, our hands can move at many different speeds. Even though Dasa is a font—and not actual handwriting—text typed with it looks as if it has been written slowly, not in a hurried manner. Think of it as closer to “love letters” on the handwriting-spectrum, rather than a grocery shopping list.
This slowness leads to Dasa’s even and static-looking letterforms. Each letter in the font appears typographically-informed – they look very much like printed characters, not like the ones taught in elementary school penmanship classes. Dasa Latin-script letters are not joining; each one lives in its own space, with the exception of a few ligatures.
The font includes one stylistic set, discretionary ligatures, and oldstyle figures available via the OpenType feature. Among other things, this stylistic set offers single-storey “a” and “g” glyphs.
