Khula
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Configuration
Select the weights and styles you want to include in your project.
Weights
Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/khula 2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Khula", sans-serif;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* Please select at least one weight and style */ Background & Story
Khula (खुला) is a contemporary text Devanagari typeface family designed by Erin McLaughlin as a compliment to Open Sans, a Latin family designed by Steve Matteson. Currently it has 5 weights and supports Hindi.
Thank you to Dave Crossland, Liang Hai, Vaishnavi Murthy, Sarang Kulkarni, Pablo Impallari, and all of the other Google Web Fonts contributors for your help with this project. Continued thanks to Fiona Ross and Tobias Frere-Jones for your guidance and training. Thanks to Miguel Sousa, Tal Leming, the RoboFont team, and the other font tool-makers who made this possible. Thank you to AM, Cailin, and my family for their support.
This project is led by Erin McLaughlin, a type designed based in Wichita, USA. To contribute, see Khula on GitHub.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource/khula Designed by
Erin McLaughlin
Links
License
OFL-1.1