Karla font

Karla is a Google Font sans-serif family, free for commercial use on Google Fonts. Works for product UI, marketing sites, and modern SaaS brand kits.

Sans serif · Google Fonts · Commercial free

Karla

Use in playground

Karla is a Google Font sans-serif family, free for commercial use on Google Fonts. Works for product UI, marketing sites, and modern SaaS brand kits.

Weight 400

The quick brown fox

Weight 500

The quick brown fox

Weight 600

The quick brown fox

Weight 700

The quick brown fox

Character set

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Display sample

Build your brand kit with Karla

Body sample

Use Karla in landing pages, dashboards, and DESIGN.md exports. Pair it with a complementary body font for readable paragraphs and UI labels.

Popular pairings

Karla + Archivo Black

Embed code

Copy the snippet for your stack — same pattern as Google Fonts, ready for production sites and AI agent repos.

HTML link tag

html

<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=Karla:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet" />

CSS @import

css

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Karla:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap');

body {
  font-family: 'Karla', sans-serif;
}

CSS font-family

css

.font-karla {
  font-family: 'Karla', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
}

Next.js next/font/google

typescript

import { Karla } from "next/font/google";

const font = Karla({
  subsets: ["latin"],
  weight: ["400", "500", "600", "700"],
  variable: "--font-karla",
});

export default function RootLayout({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
  return (
    <html lang="en" className={font.variable}>
      <body>{children}</body>
    </html>
  );
}

Tailwind CSS

css

@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  --font-karla: 'Karla', sans-serif;
}

/* Usage: class="font-[family-name:var(--font-karla)]" */

DESIGN.md snippet

markdown

## Typography

- **Headline font:** Karla (Google Fonts)
- **CSS stack:** 'Karla', sans-serif
- **Weights:** 400;500;600;700

```html
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Karla:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet" />
```

Best for

UI dashboards
Marketing sites
App navigation
Body copy