Kalnia

Try Kalnia

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Kalnia Thin
• ExtraLight 200Kalnia ExtraLight
• Light 300Kalnia Light
• Regular 400Kalnia Regular
• Medium 500Kalnia Medium
• SemiBold 600Kalnia SemiBold
• Bold 700Kalnia Bold

Kalnia is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Kalnia

Kalnia is a serif typeface built on strong contrast between thick and thin. In the heavier weights the vertical stems are broad while serifs and joins shrink to hairlines; in Thin, the whole letter becomes a fine line drawing of the same shapes. Curved letters carry large ball and teardrop terminals, visible on a, c, f, r and y, and the capital K and the numerals 2, 3 and 5 have curling strokes. Proportions are wide, and the round letters are nearly full circles. Frida Medrano is the designer. The family is a single variable font with two axes: weight from 100 to 700 and width from 100 to 125, so letters can only be made wider than the default, not narrower. There are seven named weights and no italic. The font has 383 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended.

Where Kalnia works

Magazine and fashion headlines

Thick stems against hairline serifs give a large title the contrast expected of editorial display type.

Wordmarks and beauty packaging

Ball terminals and the curled K make a short brand name distinctive at logo size.

Titles that must fill a width

The width axis stretches letters from 100 to 125, so a line can be widened to fit a column without tracking.

Layered typographic hierarchy

Thin 100 beside Bold 700 from the same design gives a strong contrast for a title and subtitle.

Invitations and menus

Light weights at large size draw names and course titles as fine lines.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Kalnia

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 Kalnia 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: "Kalnia";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Kalnia-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Kalnia", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Kalnia 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=Kalnia:wght@100..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

Kalnia has seven upright weights and no italic or slant axis.

Width only expands

The width axis starts at the default 100 and goes up to 125. A condensed setting is not available.

Hairlines need size

The thin strokes are drawn for display sizes; in small text they can break up on screen.

One variable file

The package holds a single variable TTF covering both axes; the static instances are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Kalnia

• High-contrast Didone fonts for fashion and editorial headlines

  Modern-face serifs with hairline serifs and vertical stress: the look of fashion mastheads, beauty packaging and magazine covers.

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