Condensed Fonts

Condensed fonts can be tricky use and should be avoided for blocks of type, although they can work well when used sparingly. The letters of a condensed font have set-widths that are narrower than in the standard typeface from the same family. The term condensed font can also apply to fonts where each variation is much taller than it is wide. Often such fonts may have the words “condensed,” “narrow” or “compressed” in their names, although some fonts use numbers to represent character widths.