The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The Seasons vs Rasbern
Two commercial high-contrast serifs from small independent studios, both aimed at branding and editorial display work. The Seasons, by Elena Genova of My Creative Land (2021), pairs a vintage-flavoured upright with hand-written calligraphic italics, while Rasbern, by Nasir Udin (2022), is a sharper, more conventional display serif built out across a wide weight range.
The Seasons is a commercial font, so it is shown here in Cormorant, its closest free alternative. All free alternatives to The Seasons → Rasbern is a commercial font, so it is shown here in Playfair Display, its closest free alternative. All free alternatives to Rasbern →
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
- The Seasons' italics are genuine calligraphic companions, written with a Pilot Parallel Pen and based on humanistic scripts, so they read as a separate expressive voice rather than a slanted roman.
- Rasbern ships as 18 fonts, nine weights from Thin to Black with matching italics, giving it more room to scale from short paragraphs in the light weights up to heavy headlines.
- The Seasons runs from Thin to ExtraBold and covers Extended Latin plus Cyrillic, while Rasbern's 504-glyph set targets 200+ Latin-based languages but no Cyrillic.
- The Seasons' letterforms are defined by softly sheared terminals cut against dramatic curves, where Rasbern leans on clean high contrast for a crisper, more refreshing look.
- Both are paid fonts: Rasbern's full family lists at $149 with only the Thin weight free, and The Seasons is sold through Fontspring and MyFonts but is also included with an Adobe Fonts subscription.
The Seasons
Reach for The Seasons when you want romance and hand-made character in invitations, packaging, magazine mastheads, or logos, especially if the calligraphic italics will carry the design.
Rasbern
Reach for Rasbern when you need a sharp, versatile display serif with enough weights to run from book covers and web headings down to short editorial paragraphs.