Noto Sans Bassa Vah by Google — Sans Serif Font — preview 11 / 3
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About Noto Sans Bassa Vah Font

Noto Sans Bassa Vah is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the African Bassa Vah script. Noto Sans Bassa Vah contains 45 glyphs, 3 OpenType features, and supports 41 characters from the Unicode block Bassa Vah. Supported writing systems Bassa Vah Bassa Vah is an African bicameral alphabet, written left-to-right. Used for the Bassa language spoken in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and by communities in Brazil and the Caribbean. Developed by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis from a sign system used by the Bassa people to avoid slave traders, later suppressed by colonial powers, fell into disuse. Has 23 consonants, 7 vowels, and 5 tone diacritics. Read more on ScriptSource , Unicode , Wikipedia , Wiktionary , r12a .

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Clean, Modern, Sans Serif
Use Case
Body Text, UI
Ideal For
branding, interfaces, and modern layouts
Pairs With
a contrasting serif for headings

Noto Sans Bassa Vah Specifications

Font FamilyNoto Sans Bassa Vah
StyleRegular
Full NameNoto Sans Bassa Vah Regular
Version2.002
Weight400 (Regular)
Glyph Count384 glyphs
PostScript NameNotoSansBassaVah-Regular
DesignerMonotype Design Team
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size59.9 KB

OpenType Features

Noto Sans Bassa Vah ships with 1 OpenType feature you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Ordinals
  • Variable font · axes: wght

Languages Supported

Noto Sans Bassa Vah supports 283 languages.

How to Install Noto Sans Bassa Vah Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Noto Sans Bassa Vah font file (.ttf or .otf).
  2. 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
  3. 3Right-click the font file.
  4. 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
  5. 5Noto Sans Bassa Vah is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Noto Sans Bassa Vah Font?

Noto Sans Bassa Vah Font is a versatile sans-serif font that works for both headings and body text. Pair it with a contrasting serif or slab serif font to add visual interest and a clear distinction between titles and body copy.

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Noto Sans Bassa Vah Font

by Google

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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