In the 1930s the WPA (Works Progress Administration) was involved with getting a number of Americans back to work during the Great Depression. One faction of the WPA's efforts was the Federal Art Project. Thin, condensed hand lettering on a poster for an Art Exhibition at the New Bedford Free Public Library is the inspiration for Art Exhibit JNL.

SERID is a display font condensed and regular designed for editorial applications. Inverted contrast, features a serif hybrid that gives a decorative character and personality to the font. Being a display type, intended for use in titles or in small blocks of text, from 24pt. The name SERID comes from the combination of words “SERif” and “hybrID”, resulting SERID.

From the great Schelter & Giesecke collection, Dante Alighieri is a splendid companion to Aldo Manuzio. With its rather condensed characters it makes an ideal body text font even for narrow columns. Dante Alighieri comes with the historical long s and swash letters of H and T. It can be used for all major West and Central European languages.

Sansational is an original design by Alex Kaczun. The inspiration started with the shape of a "paper clip". Simple and elegant. A condensed sans serif that's, well... just sansational! It's a delight to use and view. Great for advertising, large headlines, web applications, and well... just about anything. Works equally well in a broad range of text point sizes.

This typeface appeared in the William H. Page Woodtype specimen book as Gothic Tuscan Condensed Reversed—quite a mouthful. Banner elements appear in the brace and bracket positions, and reversed spaces can be found in the underscore and bar positions. Both versions of this font support the Latin 1252, Central European 1250, Turkish 1254 and Baltic 1257 codepages.

Dietal Sans is a companion to the Dietal slab serif family. It is a condensed sans serif family that comes in 5 weights. Dietal Sans coquettes with different type categories from sans and slab to calligraphy, western, pixel and display elements. Contains Stylistic Alternates, Ordinals and Tabular Figures as Open Type Features in Extended Latin and Cyrillic character set.

Somaskript Tall shares the same concept as Somatype Skwosh, namely a desire to ignore traditional rules and re-scale along one axis only. This time the starting point was Somaskript and the end result is a condensed & uniquely elegant display face, vertically extended by the process but with legibility very much intact and its personality preserved.

Abel is a modern interpretation of the condensed flat-sided sans serif. Originally used for newspaper headlines and posters, this style can also be used for text on the web. Its angled terminals and spiked stems give it enough style to be unique at display sizes, while its mono-weight still works well at smaller text sizes.

Slivky is a condensed rounded font family. It includes 6 styles: All Caps, All Caps Swash, Regular, Regular Swash, Small Caps, Small Caps Swash. Swash fonts have large capitals in the style of handwritten / script fonts. This cute rounded font is quite versatile due to the different styles. Good for logos, packaging, posters, advertisements and more.

Eunoia is an eye-popping, high-contrast, condensed, geometric, sans serif typeface. The family is not, as is usual, built around variance in weight or skew, but alternate letterforms. Eunoia is a system of six fonts with interchangeable characters. Use the fonts individually (each has a quite distinct personality), or mix and match to create eunique wordmarks.

Proudly Present, Orion Chalk, with Two Styles Solid & Scratch. Orion Chalk is a Condensed Chalkboard Font. Orion Chalk is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Orion Chalk also come with multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email.

Hookward Condensed Hookward is a very cool font for a design with modern display headline: magazine, poster, branding, labels, music, and minimalism styles. With a strong display and clean nodes make a text in a design become more character and great. Inspired by the current trend of sports texts with a very modern and cool headline style.

Introducint Caorgen Caorgen is a Condensed modern display font with serif style. It's modern and classic font with a unique and deference look . Perfect if you need a dose of fun in your project. Perfect for editorial projects, Logo design, web font, clothing branding, product packaging, magazine headers, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image.

A single-weight display font, Steel Grrrder Groove is a constructivist inline stencil design best used in short display settings or as an introductory drop cap to grab attention. The design is sharp, angular and slightly condensed with a striking inline groove giving it an air of chiselled chunkiness. It’s groovy but in a slightly robotic way.

Unicorn is a super-condensed Display font with a subtle dramatic flair that works especially well in titles, headers and editorial design. It was firstly inspired by a lowercase set seen on a furniture ad in Domus (the architecture magazine) #192, from 1943. For maximum drama, use with a bright & smart colour palette. Appointed by the Unicorn. Of course.

Artegra Slab is the latest addition to the Artegra superfamily. It contains 54 fonts with over 1000 glyphs per font in condensed, normal and extended widths. With Cyrillic and Greek sets it supports more than a hundred languages. It’s based on the perfectionist geometric shapes of Artegra Sans, which makes it beautiful to look at and easy to read.

Halliday JNL was redrawn from impressions made by a rubber stamp sign printing set, thus providing the slight imperfection of line widths that gives a hand-made approach to the typeface. The lettering style is based on Beton Open Condensed, a clean and popular slab serif used for decades in print display titling and rubber stamp manufacture.

I think it is one of our most useful fonts in that it doesn't draw much attention to itself while it is quite refreshingly different. Almost all shapes in Vecta are rounded to provide a friendly effect. Proportions are somewhat condensed providing economic space usage. Vecta looks equally at home in headlines as well as body text.

Are you looking for a strong display font? Introduction a Briztle Font Stylish brushy condensed typeface. With solid stroke brush styles, this typeface has a very fresh, modern, and classy look that's perfect for your display project. This font is perfect for headlines, quotes, magazine covers, editorial design, print posters, signage, window shop design, and much more.

Eva is a pretty and legible font. Condensed and with a handwritten touch, Eva gives a warm and friendly feeling to your layout. It was totally inspired by hand-written chalkboards in coffeeshops around the world. You can use this font to create posters, greeting cards, scrapbooks, CD labels, T-shirts, coffee mugs, digital videos websites and banners.

German type designer Jürgen Huber created this display FontFont in 1996. The family contains 3 weights: Regular, Condensed, and Heavy and is ideally suited for film and tv, music and nightlife, poster and billboards as well as software and gaming. FF Angst provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures. It comes with proportional lining figures.

Skie is a simple gothic sans serif with normal, condensed, and wide widths. Its distinguishing characteristics are the small x-height with tall ascenders and a minimal amount of contrast, while the apertures are semi-open to help in readability. The simple design keeps the appearance fairly neutral and presents a blend of modern and vintage qualities.

GROVELANE is a Condensed Handbrushed Font. Grovelane is a simple and clean display font. It is the ideal choice for a variety of designs, so add it confidently and you will love the relaxed and neat final result.. GROVELANE also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank you!

Zokak is a first-of-its-kind ultra condensed Arabic typeface designed for display uses. The name means an alley in Arabic which comes from its very narrow letters, which makes it perfect in small spaces. Zokak has two main styles, the default style and the tall one to give more diversity and to be suitable for more uses.

Breda Two is the condensed version of the Breda family, but it is presented as an independent family of fonts because they can work as a single face in your design. As a Breda font, this style is austere, functional and clear, emerged from straight lines and primary shapes. Breda Two is released in four weights with two italics.

Skorid is a geometric condensed sans serif font family, constructed only out of straight lines. Coming in 7 weights, regular and italic, from thin to black, you have a wide array of possibilities of using Skorid for any purpose you need. Skorid speaks around 70 languages, including Cyrillic. Contains a lot of alternative letters to boost your creativity.

Willow font was designed by Tony Forster, a fanciful font in the Viennese Secessionist style. The work of Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh inspired this condensed sans serif typeface with its rough edges and selection of alternate and ligature characters. Willow font revives the look of the arts and crafts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Coyuhqui is a semi-geometric technical typeface, ideal for posters and flyers. It provides two weights: regular and medium. In addition to three styles: condensed, regular and extended; without leaving out the italic forms of each one. Thus, the Coyuhqui typeface family provides twelve typefaces. If you need a typeface for your project, this is the ideal one.

Dietal is condensed slab serif family that comes in 5 weights. Dietal coquettes with different type categories from sans and slab to calligraphy, western and display elements. It is available in two versions: with curved and sharp joining. Contains Stylistic Alternates, Ordinals and Tabular Figures as Open Type Features in Extended Latin and Cyrillic character set.

Lion & Hare is an ultra compressed, tall font family that portrays strength and power. The condensed characters maintain fairly square edges to give a more consistent geometric & industrial look to the font. The font family supports 27 languages and comes in 6 styles. Lion and Hare works fantastic for website headers, magazine layouts, logos, branding and much more.

Inspired by the grotesque fonts of the 19th century, Parkson is a tall sans serif typeface of 7 weights along with italic and several outline versions. The contemporary typeface aims to be one of the world's best condensed collection of fonts. Designed for optimum legibility, its clean, geometric look is perfect for logotypes, headers, titles and brochures.

French Clarendon was an extremely popular wood type font. Characters are heavy and condensed with bracketed serifs, which measure approximately 1/4 to 1/3 the height of the letter. Dozens of decorative wood type designs have been created based on French Clarendon. It was marketed as a wood letter by William H. Page & Company in 1865.

Rundfunk is a condensed font which features an unusual lowercase with an extremely low x-height and high tail ascenders that align with the capitals. It is a reworking of the original designed by Adolf Behrmann for the Berthold type foundry in 1928. Rundfunk font is ideal for projecting the look and mood of the 1930s.

Another addition to the Whiz-Bang Wood Type series is this ultra-condensed font, well suited for very large headlines. Named for the body of water which separates Padre Island from the mainland of Texas. Both versions of this font contain the Unicode 1252 (Latin) and Unicode 1250 (Central European) character sets, with localization for Romanian and Moldovan.

A very condensed 19th century Tuscan style wood type design with a full character set with ligatures. This design was first shown by Wm H Page Co in 1859 and this is the first digital version of this font to include a lowercase and extended European character set. This is a font best used at large sizes.

Diamond Cubic is a modern serif font with a geometrical and a slightly condensed design which makes it particularly effective for space economizing. It will look fantastic with short and middle length text blocks, headlines, presentations, logo, branding, poster, packaging or any other creative design. Diamond Cubic containing small caps and glyph coverage for several languages.

I think it is one of our most useful fonts in that it doesn't draw much attention to itself while it is quite refreshingly different. Almost all shapes in Vecta are rounded to provide a friendly effect. Proportions are somewhat condensed providing economic space usage. Vecta looks equally at home in headlines as well as body text.

Tact is a geometrically sans serif font, black and condensed looking glyphs, with an alternative glyph set to improve its use in different graphic contexts. It is suitable for use in the fields of science, art, architecture, urban planning, techniques, electronics, advertising, futuristic themes, sport, film, computers, phones, video games, magazines... Contains all Latin and Cyrillic glyphs.

Black Mustang is is an Condensed font with a modern look, go for the alternates titling or manually choose from the Glyph Palette from more alternative characters to give it a borderless design. Black Mustang offers you: - Upper and Lowercase characters (All Caps) - Stylistic alternates (Uppercase 52 charcters, Lowwercase 26 characters) - Numbers and Punctuation - Multilingual Support (Latin Western Europe)