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Karla

Karla has a shorter x-height than 88% of the 716 sans serifs with ascenders. It offers seven weights, each with an italic, which is more styles than 86% of the sans serifs have. Only 15% of today’s sans serifs were added to the library before it.

Outlines drawn from the Karla file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the sans serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Karla	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	682	740
Cap height (top of H)	628	702
x-height (top of x)	479	519
Descender (foot of p)	−235	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.76	0.70
Average lowercase width	520	522
Ink coverage, a–z	38.8%	40.2%

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Carlito, Jua; just above: Arya, Cambay; level with: Dosis, Zen Kaku Gothic Antique, Zen Kaku Gothic New

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Exo, Radio Canada; just above: Rethink Sans, Host Grotesk

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 200 to 800.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	200 to 800	545 families

Scripts2 subsets · families sharing each

Latin1,843
Latin Extended1,525

Inside the file

In the measured file: 480 glyphs and 393 mapped Unicode characters; 19 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures and case-sensitive forms.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Estedadtaller x-height, wider Sentaller x-height, wider Playtaller x-height, narrower Sulphur Pointtaller x-height, narrower Khulataller x-height, narrower Nata Sanstaller x-height, wider

Outside the sans serif class

Elsieshorter x-height, narrower Cabin Sketchtaller x-height, narrower Elsie Swash Capsshorter x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Karla

Same designer

Jonny Pinhorn is also credited on Poppins and Shrikhand.