Carlito

Try Carlito

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Carlito Regular Italic
• Bold 700Carlito Bold Bold Italic

About Carlito

Carlito is a sans serif family by Łukasz Dziedzic that takes its letterforms from Lato, another of his designs, and fits them to the metrics of a proprietary office typeface. Metric compatibility means every character occupies the same width as its counterpart, so a document written in one font keeps its line and page breaks when opened in the other. In the specimen the strokes have low contrast, the a is double-storey, the g is single-storey and the diagonals of v, w and y end in flat cuts. The family has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic. Its 2,539 glyphs cover Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese subsets. Carlito was added to Google Fonts in 2023; the copyright notice is dated 2013 and reserves the font name Carlito. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Carlito works

Opening shared office documents

Matching character widths keep line breaks, page counts and table columns where the author placed them.

Slides and spreadsheets

Regular, Bold and their italics cover the four styles that office software exposes through its bold and italic buttons.

Reports in several scripts

Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese subsets let one document mix Latin text with Russian, Greek or Vietnamese passages.

Templates that travel between systems

Because the license allows redistribution, the files can be bundled with a template instead of relying on a font the reader may not have.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Carlito

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Carlito on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Carlito";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Carlito-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Carlito";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Carlito-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Carlito";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Carlito-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Carlito";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Carlito-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Carlito", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Carlito with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Carlito:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two weights only

Carlito stops at Regular and Bold. Lato, the family it derives from, is the place to look for lighter or heavier cuts.

Reserved font name

The copyright notice reserves the name Carlito, so a modified version has to be released under a different name.

Static files

Carlito is not a variable font; the package holds four TTF files.

FAQs

Collections with Carlito

• Fonts for résumés and CVs

  Readable open-license serif and sans-serif families for a one- or two-page CV, with the weights and italics a document needs.

Similar fonts

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