Specimen
Handgloves
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
7 weights · italic · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Karla
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.763
stroke weight
13% of cap height
0.129
contrast
Low
0.147
letter width
Normal
0.991
Web embed
Use Karla on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Karla:wght@200;300;400;500;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Karla */
body {
font-family: 'Karla', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Karla
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Karla.
Same designers
More by Jonny Pinhorn
Details
- Family
- Karla
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Jonny Pinhorn
- Added to Google Fonts
- March 14, 2012
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Karla font
Karla is a sans-serif typeface designed by Jonny Pinhorn, first released to Google Fonts on March 2012. It ships with 7 weights · italic · variable and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 76% of the cap height, normal letter forms and low stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Karla against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Karla is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.