Garalama

Name: Garalama
Author: Davud Hezretov

Garalama commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Davud Hezretov70% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Font Pairings for Garalama

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Garalama, including combinations with Modero, Lt Amber and Science Gothic.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Garalama Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Garalama Specimen

Garalama

Garalama is a display typeface by Davud Hezretov built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Garalama

GARALAMA

GARALAMATYPE

Tagline Pairings

Garalama— display typeface

GaralamaBy Davud Hezretov

GaralamaTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Garalama Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Garalama Body Typography

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Garalama, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Garalama demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Garalama for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Garalama small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Garalama delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Garalama italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Garalama bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Garalama typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Garalama typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Garalama'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Garalama

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Garalama:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Garalama:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Garalama';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Garalama:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Garalama CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Garalama', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Garalama', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'garalama': ['Garalama', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-garalama">Your text here</p>

About

Exploring Garalama's Design

Davud Hezretov

Display

Open Source

Garalama font is a bold display typeface featuring grotesk strong letterforms. Powerful and grotesk, this design delivers strong aesthetics for powerful brands, strong products, and grotesk marketing. The grotesk strong construction creates powerful presence. Designers working on powerful products, strong branding, and grotesk communications will appreciate the garalama character. Pair with grotesk body text.

Garalama comes from the work of Davud Hezretov. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Garalama features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers.

Garalama is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Garalama

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Garalama

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Garalama's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Garalama within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 70). Garalama delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

Design Heritage

Designed by Davud Hezretov. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Garalama

Garalama embodies the Graphic typeface, grounded in the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers. TypeSmith indexes Garalama in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Garalama

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Related Fonts: Garalama

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Garalama based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Using Garalama Accessibly

Garalama achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Reading Garalama: Legibility Factors

Garalama draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Garalama Reading Performance

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Garalama for Long-Form Content

Garalama provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Garalama Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Garalama. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Garalama at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Working with Garalama: Best Practices

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Garalama. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Garalama in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

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400

500

600

700

800

900

Internationalization

International Character Support

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

This font encodes 111 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

License Type

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Garalama is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Garalama ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'garalama': ['Garalama', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-garalama">Your text here</p>

Garalama

Best Ways to Use Garalama

Best Font Pairings for Garalama

Test Garalama Font Pairings Live

In Context

Garalama Typography

Garalama

Character Set

Type Scale

Garalama Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Using Garalama Accessibly

Reading Garalama: Legibility Factors

Garalama Reading Performance

Garalama for Long-Form Content

Garalama Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Garalama: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Garalama

Best Ways to Use Garalama

Best Font Pairings for Garalama

Test Garalama Font Pairings Live

In Context

Garalama Typography

Garalama

Character Set

Type Scale

Garalama Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Using Garalama Accessibly

Reading Garalama: Legibility Factors

Garalama Reading Performance

Garalama for Long-Form Content

Garalama Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Garalama: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference