What is the Karlo font?

Karlo is a super family of several branches, originating in the same lightweight skeleton. The lightweights are based on a pen of an even stroke-width. More… Inspired by the writings of calligrapher Edward Johnston, the family moves on in two directions in the heavier weights. Johnston demonstrated that the broad nib pen can produce different writing styles. Following this, one heavy weight has a humanistic low stroke contrast (KarloSerifBold and KarloSansBold), and another has a high stroke contrast of vertical axis with references to the 19th century jobbing typefaces (KarloOpen). The latter is inspired by Johnston’s demonstration of the broad nib pen, where he suggested fastening two pencils together. With each pencil representing an edge of the pen, it becomes more evident how the pen works in writing. The friendly informal look makes KarloSans and KarloSerif usable for both running text and for display sizes. KarloOpen, on the other hand, is solely designed for display purpose showing few words at a time. In Denmark, a guy named Karlo would typically be an old fellow with a slick hairstyle that makes an effort with his appearance. He is a handyman who can do a bit of this and that when needed. He is a happy go lucky kind of guy that takes one day at a time. To me, the typeface family has some of the same qualities.

Karlo Font families

The Karlo includes the following font families:

• Karlo Open Regular
• Karlo Open Italic
• Karlo Sans Extra Light
• Karlo Sans Extra Light Italic
• Karlo Sans Light
• Karlo Sans Light Italic
• Karlo Sans Regular
• Karlo Sans Italic
• Karlo Sans Medium
• Karlo Sans Medium Italic
• Karlo Sans Bold
• Karlo Sans Bold Italic
• Karlo Serif Extra Light
• Karlo Serif Extra Light Italic
• Karlo Serif Light
• Karlo Serif Light Italic
• Karlo Serif Regular
• Karlo Serif Italic
• Karlo Serif Medium
• Karlo Serif Medium Italic
• Karlo Serif Bold
• Karlo Serif Bold Italic

Karlo Preview

Here is a preview of how Karlo will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.