Karmilla is a slightly modified version of Karla.
Karla is an outstanding grotesque sans serif typeface family created by Jonathan Pinhorn (@jonpinhorn_type, a graduate of the MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading), released through Google Webfonts in 2012.
The aim of Karmilla is to offer a workaround for designers who want to use Karla on a French language website, which requires adding and tweaking some glyphs.
The original Karla font can be found here: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Karla
The source files have been obtained from http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/
We are working in FontForge, so we are using the provided SFD files (maybe not optimal, as it seems the font was originally developed in FontLab?).
The changes we made so far:
- added french quotes «», €, ᴃ
- improved éóíú on retina screens.
- added å for Scandinavian languages.
- added ç (cedilla) character for better French support.
- added œ (ligatured o and e) character for better French support.
- added various punctuation marks.
- the q character has been streamlined.
- the position of the typographic apostrophe has been changed, so it matches the height of ascenders (l', d').
See the FONTLOG.txt for details.