Karantina

Try Karantina

Weights and styles

• Light 300Karantina Light
• Regular 400Karantina Regular
• Bold 700Karantina Bold

About Karantina

Karantina is a display family of tall, narrow letters for the Hebrew and Latin scripts. Rony Koch created it during the long days of the COVID-19 quarantine, the source of its name. In the Latin shown in the specimen the letters are tightly condensed with squared shoulders and straight sides, counters are narrow slots, and the Regular is already dark, while the Light thins the same skeleton to a fine line and the Bold widens the stems further. The family has three static weights, Light 300, Regular 400 and Bold 700, without italics, and is not a variable font. Each font holds 280 glyphs covering Hebrew and basic Latin; Latin Extended is only partly present, and French lacks just the rare capital Ÿ. Karantina is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Karantina works

Hebrew and English headlines

Both scripts are in the same condensed style, so a bilingual poster keeps one texture.

Tall poster titles

Narrow letters let a long title run at great height in a portrait layout.

Title cards and thumbnails

Regular and Bold are dark and compact enough to stay readable over video stills.

Light-versus-bold lockups

Three weights of one skeleton allow a thin first line above a heavy second line.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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

Character sets found in the files: hebrew, latin. 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 Karantina

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 Karantina 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: "Karantina";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Karantina-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Karantina";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Karantina-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Karantina";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Karantina-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Karantina 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=Karantina:wght@300;400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Three weights, no Medium

The styles are Light 300, Regular 400 and Bold 700.

The specimen shows Latin

The sample image on this page sets Latin letters; the Hebrew characters are not pictured there.

Basic Latin beside Hebrew

Only the Hebrew and Latin subsets are counted as covered. Latin Extended has a few characters only.

FAQs

Collections with Karantina

• Fonts that support Hebrew

  Open-license families with Hebrew and Latin drawn to work together: text sans and serifs, rounded and display designs.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All display fonts