Recursive

Classification

Font Technology

Variable Font with 5 axes
CASL (CASL): 0–1
CRSV (CRSV): 0–1
MONO (MONO): 0–1
Slant (slnt): -15–0
Weight (wght): 300–1000

How To Use Recursive

To use Recursive in your web project, either search Google Fonts and use their embed code or host the font on your server and use the CSS below. Note: fonts served by Google Fonts may be missing some OpenType features that are available in the original font.
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Recursive';
  src: url('<YOUR SERVER PATH>Recursive[CASL,CRSV,MONO,slnt,wght].ttf') format(woff2);
  font-weight: 300 1000;
  font-stretch: 100%;
  font-style: normal;
}

Description

Recursive is typographic palette for UI & code. It draws inspiration from single-stroke casual, a style of brush writing used in signpainting that is stylistically flexible and warmly energetic. Recursive adapts this aesthetic basis into an extensive variable font family, designed to excel in digital interactive environments, including data-rich user interfaces, technical documentation, and code editors. Recursive offers a lot more styles than you see here! To download the full Recursive Sans & Mono family, learn more about its 5 variable axes, and to configure advanced Google Fonts URL embed code for access to Recursive’s full stylistic range, check out its website at: → recursive.design The Recursive project is led by Arrow Type, a type foundry based in Brooklyn, NY, USA. To contribute, see its GitHub repo . Update, April 2021: the Google Fonts release of Recursive has been updated to incorporate various changes from its initial release. This includes fixes that correct printing issues, ensure consistent default line heights between styles on macOS, improve the handling of combining accents, add localization features for several languages, and resolve various other earlier issues.

Designer

Arrow Type, Stephen Nixon

Copyright

Copyright 2019 The Recursive Project Authors (github.com/arrowtype/recursive)

OpenType Features

Related Fonts

Recursive regular
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears.
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Numerals
proportional-nums
0123456789 0123456789
Arbitrary Fractions
diagonal-fractions
1/2 1/3 2/3 3/4 5/8 15/16 1234/5678
Ordinals
default css
font-feature-settings: "ordn" 1
a
a
o
o
No.
No.
No
No
1a
1a
2o
2o
Stylistic set 1:
Single-story ‘a’
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss01" 1
a
a
à
à
á
á
â
â
ã
ã
ä
ä
å
å
ā
ā
ă
ă
ą
ą
ǻ
ǻ
ȁ
ȁ
ȃ
ȃ
ạ
ạ
ả
ả
ấ
ấ
ầ
ầ
ẩ
ẩ
ẫ
ẫ
ậ
ậ
ắ
ắ
ằ
ằ
ẳ
ẳ
ẵ
ẵ
ặ
ặ
Stylistic set 2:
Single-story ‘g’
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss02" 1
g
g
ĝ
ĝ
ğ
ğ
ġ
ġ
ģ
ģ
ǧ
ǧ
ḡ
ḡ
Stylistic set 3:
Simplified Mono ‘f’
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss03" 1
f
f
Stylistic set 5:
Simplified Mono ‘l’
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss05" 1
l
l
ĺ
ĺ
ļ
ļ
ľ
ľ
ḷ
ḷ
ḻ
ḻ
ŀ
ŀ
ł
ł
Stylistic set 6:
Simplified Mono ‘r’
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss06" 1
r
r
ŕ
ŕ
ŗ
ŗ
ř
ř
ȑ
ȑ
ȓ
ȓ
ṛ
ṛ
ṟ
ṟ
Stylistic set 8:
No-serif ‘L’ & ‘Z’
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss08" 1
L
L
Ĺ
Ĺ
Ļ
Ļ
Ľ
Ľ
Ḷ
Ḷ
Ḻ
Ḻ
Z
Z
Ź
Ź
Ż
Ż
Ž
Ž
Ẓ
Ẓ
Ŀ
Ŀ
Ł
Ł
DŽ
DŽ
DZ
DZ
Stylistic set 9:
Simplified Six & Nine
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss09" 1
6
6
9
9
⁶
⁶
⁹
⁹
₆
₆
₉
₉
Stylistic set 10:
Dotted Zero
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss10" 1
0
0
⁰
⁰
₀
₀
Stylistic set 11:
Simplified One
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss11" 1
1
1
Stylistic set 12:
Simplified Mono ‘at’
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss12" 1
@
@
Stylistic set 20:
Slashed Zero
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss20" 1
0
0
⁰
⁰
₀
₀
Slashed Zero
default css
font-feature-settings: "zero" 1
0
0
⁰
⁰
₀
₀