Karma is an Open Source multi-script typeface supporting both the Devanagari and the Latin script. The family was developed for use in body text on screen, and five fonts are available. The characters for both scripts feature a construction style that tends toward the monolinear. The Latin script component has serif letters. Both these, and the stroke terminals in the Devanagari letterforms are generally rounded in Karma’s design.

Karma’s characters are economic in width, and the Latin sports a tall x-height. Although the knotted terminals in the Devanagari letterforms are closed, the general feeling of the Devanagari character set is open and airy. See the design of the ख (kha), छ (cha) and ध (dha), for example.

Joana Correia designed Karma for the Indian Type Foundry, who first published the fonts in 2014.

Karma font contains 489 defined characters and 367 unique glyphs. The font contains characters from the following unicode character ranges: Basic Latin (93), Latin-1 Supplement (96), Latin Extended-A (127), Latin Extended-B (5), Spacing Modifier Letters (9), Combining Diacritical Marks (1), Greek and Coptic (1), Devanagari (102), Latin Extended Additional (8), General Punctuation (19), Superscripts and Subscripts (1), Currency Symbols (2), Letterlike Symbols (2), Mathematical Operators (12), Geometric Shapes (2), Private Use Area (1), Alphabetic Presentation Forms (5).

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