Karma

Try Karma

Weights and styles

• Light 300Karma Light
• Regular 400Karma Regular
• Medium 500Karma Medium
• SemiBold 600Karma SemiBold
• Bold 700Karma Bold

About Karma

Karma is a two-script family in which Devanagari and Latin share one near-monoline construction: strokes barely change in thickness, and stroke ends are rounded. The Latin, as the specimen shows, has blunt slab-like serifs with softened corners, narrow letters and a tall x-height, which keeps lines economical. The Devanagari has closed, knotted terminals yet leaves open space inside the letters. Five static weights are supplied, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, with no italics and no variable version in the package. The fonts contain 1,102 glyphs, covering Devanagari together with Latin and Latin Extended. Karma was drawn by Joana Correia, and the Indian Type Foundry first published it in 2014. The family was developed with on-screen body text in mind and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Karma works

Websites in Devanagari and Latin

Both scripts follow the same low-contrast construction, so mixed paragraphs keep one colour on screen.

Reading on phones

Narrow letters and a tall Latin x-height fit more words into a short line while staying open.

Interface text with hierarchy

Five weights from Light to Bold separate labels, values and headings inside one family.

Friendly editorial headings

The rounded slab serifs give SemiBold and Bold headings a soft, sturdy look.

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

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

Character sets found in the files: devanagari, 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 Karma

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 Karma 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: "Karma";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Karma-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Karma";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Karma-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Karma";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Karma-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Karma";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Karma-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 1 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Karma 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=Karma:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

Karma has five upright weights and no italic styles.

Static files only

The download holds five separate TrueType files. Karma is not a variable font.

Classed as serif at the source

Google Fonts lists Karma as a serif; this page files it under slab serif because the specimen shows flat, stroke-weight serifs.

FAQs

Collections with Karma

• Fonts that support Devanagari

  Open-license families for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and other Devanagari-script languages, each with Latin letters in the same files.

Similar fonts

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