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It looks like you're using a demo font, so it's missing some characters and is probably in violating of its license.

Karla is a free font that's somewhat similar to the design of Meta's corporate font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Karla

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Might this use be protected and allowed since this is a parody?

I don’t think so because the critique is not of the font. Something like Times Newer Roman[0] might fall into that category?

(Fair use is notoriously misunderstood, and I am no exception.)

[0]: https://timesnewerroman.com/

Is that really legal?

Seems that they are using Time News Roman's glyphs.

i once heard somewhere that the shapes aren't copyrightable so as long as you change the name you're good? but maybe not since they claim on that page to have used a similar free font (Nimbus Roman No.9 L) as the basis

Fair Use only applies to the thing being critiqued/parodied. You can’t just violate a license because you’re critiquing some completely different thing.

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