- Heading
- Carlito
- Body text
- Gentium Plus
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, friendly
- The body font is made for reading
Carlito
About the font
Carlito is a free font by Łukasz Dziedzic, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 764 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 48% of the em and the capital height is 64%.
Carlito is a sans-serif font by Łukasz Dziedzic, derived from his Lato design and metric-compatible with Calibri. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts and includes 2783 glyphs. The family has 4 styles with weights from 400 to 700. It is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Łukasz Dziedzic
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
2783
Character and uses
- Mood
- friendly
- calm
- Design
- humanist
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Carlito has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 764 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Polish
- Hausa
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Ukrainian
- Igbo
- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
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- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Akan
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Tunisian Arabic
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Bambara
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Kanuri
- Catalan
- Mossi
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Fula
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Dyula
- Southern Sotho
- Krio
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Romany
- Sicilian
- Uzbek(Cyrillic)
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Zarma
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Central Atlas Tamazight
- Tiv
- Kabyle
- Bikol
- Fon
- Waray
- Tachelhit
- Efik
…and 656 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 2117
- x-height
- 48% of the em
- Capital height
- 64% of the em
- Version
- 1.104
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Contextual alternates
calt - Kerning
kern - Capitals to small capitals
c2sc - Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic alternates
salt - Stylistic sets (4)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Carlito
- Designer’s page
- lukaszdziedzic.eu
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Carlito font free to use?
Yes. Carlito is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Carlito support Cyrillic?
Yes, Carlito includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Carlito support?
Carlito covers 764 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install Carlito?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Carlito?
Carlito was created by Łukasz Dziedzic.
What is Carlito good for?
Judging by its design, Carlito suits: interfaces, body text, magazines and editorial, headings.
Pairs well with Carlito
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