Karla
Karla is a grotesque that never quite settles into neutrality: the letters run wide, the rhythm is a little uneven, and a paragraph of it has more texture than the category usually allows. Its weight axis runs from an extra light at 200 to an extra bold at 800, which is unusually generous for a face this specific. Latin and Latin Extended only — there is no Cyrillic or Greek here, so check the character map before committing it to a multilingual project.
See Karla in a paragraphCompare with Bricolage Grotesque and Mona Sans
Karla at a glance
- Commercial use
- Yes · OFL 1.1
- On a website
- Yes · WOFF2 here
- Variable
- Yes · 7 weights
- In a logo
- Yes
- Türkçe (ı İ ğ ş)
- Yes
- Italic
- Yes
Alphabets
Style
Size ladder
96
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
64
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
40
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
24
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
16
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
12
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Specification
- Designer
- Jonny Pinhorn
- Released
- 2012
- Category
- Sans-serif
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Body text, User interfaces, Editorial, Signage
- Weights
- 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800
- Styles
- Normal, Italic
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 480
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe
- Download size
- 120 KB
Karla character map
Latin110
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Latin Extended170
Western European
- À
- Á
- Â
- Ã
- Ä
- Å
- Æ
- Ç
- È
- É
- Ê
- Ë
- Ì
- Í
- Î
- Ï
- Ð
- Ñ
- Ò
- Ó
- Ô
- Õ
- Ö
- Ø
- Ù
- Ú
- Û
- Ü
- Ý
- Þ
- ß
- à
- á
- â
- ã
- ä
- å
- æ
- ç
- è
- é
- ê
- ë
- ì
- í
- î
- ï
- ð
- ñ
- ò
- ó
- ô
- õ
- ö
- ø
- ù
- ú
- û
- ü
- ý
- þ
- ÿ
Central and Eastern European
- Ā
- ā
- Ă
- ă
- Ą
- ą
- Ć
- ć
- Ċ
- ċ
- Č
- č
- Ď
- ď
- Đ
- đ
- Ē
- ē
- Ė
- ė
- Ę
- ę
- Ě
- ě
- Ğ
- ğ
- Ġ
- ġ
- Ģ
- ģ
- Ħ
- ħ
- Ī
- ī
- Į
- į
- İ
- ı
- IJ
- ij
- Ķ
- ķ
- Ĺ
- ĺ
- Ļ
- ļ
- Ľ
- ľ
- Ł
- ł
- Ń
- ń
- Ņ
- ņ
- Ň
- ň
- Ŋ
- ŋ
- Ō
- ō
- Ő
- ő
- Œ
- œ
- Ŕ
- ŕ
- Ŗ
- ŗ
- Ř
- ř
- Ś
- ś
- Ş
- ş
- Š
- š
- Ţ
- ţ
- Ť
- ť
- Ŧ
- ŧ
- Ū
- ū
- Ŭ
- ŭ
- Ů
- ů
- Ű
- ű
- Ų
- ų
- Ŵ
- ŵ
- Ŷ
- ŷ
- Ÿ
- Ź
- ź
- Ż
- ż
- Ž
- ž
Romanian and other
- Ș
- ș
- Ț
- ț
- ƒ
Türkçe14
- Ç
- ç
- Ğ
- ğ
- I
- ı
- İ
- i
- Ö
- ö
- Ş
- ş
- Ü
- ü
Use Karla on the web
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Karla';
/* Take the WOFF2 button above, put karla.woff2 wherever
you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
src: url('/fonts/karla.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 200 800;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Karla', sans-serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/karla.css">body {
font-family: 'Karla', sans-serif;
}Questions
- Is Karla free for commercial use?
- Yes. Karla is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Karla in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Karla belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Jonny Pinhorn. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Karla?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. Karla is a variable font: those files carry all 7 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Karla that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 14 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Karla support Turkish?
- Yes. Karla includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- What languages does Karla support?
- Karla covers Latin, Latin Extended and Turkish, across 480 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- What weights does Karla come in?
- Karla comes in 7 weights: Extra Light (200), Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600), Bold (700) and Extra Bold (800). It is a variable font, so every one of them is in a single file and you can also set any weight in between.
- Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Karla?
- Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 39 KB against 49 KB for the complete file, 19% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.
- Where can I download Karla as WOFF2?
- From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is karla.woff2, and it is about 49 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.
Karla license
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
- Taken unmodified from googlefonts/karla
- The licence file is inside every zip — the site will not publish a download without one
- This page’s data last changed on 4 September 2026
Pairs well with Karla
- Aleo
A serif to contrast with it — both are sturdy and unsentimental.
See the two side by side - Bitter
A serif to contrast with it — both are sturdy and unsentimental.
See the two side by side
Cite this page
Karla font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/karla (updated 2026-09-04)