The was the first weight drawn. Torres spent over 18 months refining the spacing and kerning pairs to ensure that the regular weight would not require optical adjustments when set in body copy. Since its release, Katari Regular has been adopted by several European startups, fashion lookbooks, and even municipal signage in Valencia.

Maya was a graphic designer who lived by rules: grids, kerning, contracts. But the Katari R tugged at the edges of her tidy life. She began to use a scan of the specimen as a placeholder in mockups—headers for community newsletters, the logo of a pop-up poetry night, the tentative masthead for a zine she never finished. Wherever Katari appeared, people asked about it. It looked like an antique and a secret at once, like a letter folded inside a pocket watch.

The Katari typeface family was released in 2018 by an independent type foundry based in Barcelona, Spain. The designer, Marcos Torres, aimed to create a “bridge” font—one that could perform equally well in print and on digital screens. The name “Katari” derives from the Quechua word for “serpent,” reflecting the font’s flowing yet structured curves.

A font is only as good as its pairings. To make Katari Regular shine, try these combinations:

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