Karela was developed by Juan Luis Blanco and released by Blancoletters. Karela consists of 16 styles and family bundle alternatives. p > English description

Karela is a humanist piece serif family. Karela is also the Basque word for gunwale, this is, the widened edge at the top of the side of a boat, where the edge is reinforced with wood or other material and to which the thwarts are connected. Gunwales look like the method piece serifs enhance vertical stems offering a more robust look to the letters. The tough, solid and frequently mechanical structure that is traditional in slab serif or mechanistic typefaces is softened in Karela applying subtle tweaks as: humanist proportions, a little curved endings in ascenders, and curved edges in serifs.

The influence of calligraphy is noticeable all over the character set, specifically in counters and letters with instrokes like "m", "n" and " r", and it ends up being explicit in the italics. On the other hand, its low contrast, generous x-height and the consistent width of characters across weights makes it really hassle-free for editorial uses when low resolution is a concern. Karela pursues to give a human touch to a strong and highly practical structure. It seeks for the perfect combination of strength, accuracy and heat of the wooden parts painstackingly handcrafted by ancient boat builders.

Besides its 12 standard styles, Karela offers also 4 additional typefaces called 'grades'. Grades are subtle changes in stroke weight in order to compensate for distinctions in printing media or display conditions of text layouts. To minimize these subtle changes without a reflow of the text they have actually to be designed with the very same character width of the base style. Karela uses 4 grades for its Regular weight: Grade Minus 5, Grade Minus 5 Italic, Grade Plus 5 and Grade Plus 5 Italic. This enables to neutralize the impact of modifications in paper, temperature level, paper, background color ... In addition, Karela takes this no‑reflowing concept from grades and extends it to the entire variety of styles, enabling to play with any of its weights without unfavorable text reflows. Enjoy the design stability while you experiment and play with variations!

Karela presents also a vast array of Opentype features for a professional text layout.

Font Family:
· Karela Extra Light
· Karela Extra Light Italic
· Karela Light
· Karela Light Italic
· Karela Grade Minus 5
· Karela Grade Minus 5 Italic
· Karela Regular
· Karela Italic
· Karela Grade Plus 5
· Karela Grade Plus 5 Italic
· Karela Semi Bold
· Karela Semi Bold Italic
· Karela Bold
· Karela Bold Italic
· Karela Extra Bold
· Karela Extra Bold Italic

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