Retro style is hip, so are early 20th century poster fonts. Size is based on these extra condensed letter forms. In the 19th century the need to communicate commercial messages on limited poster space brought up extremely condensed fonts creating a new typographical look. Since not really legible in small sizes these fonts nearly disappeared with the change in the commercial communication in the 20th century. For a couple of years now, these extra condensed fonts have a revival copying the exact historical appearance of its predecessors. Size, though also seeking the inspiration in the historical draft, furthermore aims to interpret this compressed look in a more vivid way by not closing in on the open counters of the round letters, but having its stroke endings slightly curved. Since other characters are defined by straight strokes, Size displays a look more vital and candid, but still distinct, compared to its historical predecessors.

Heavy Duty is a bold condensed sans serif font set. Heavy Duty Solid is crisp and clean while Heavy Duty Sketch suggests characters that could have been sketched with a pen or pencil. Both fonts have the same uppercase and small caps lowercase alphabet, numbers, punctuation, symbols, and miscellaneous characters. The Heavy Duty fonts are ideal for making a bold statement in headlines, titles, or text. Heavy Duty Solid and Heavy Duty Sketch are to be sold only as a set priced at $20.

Rover Pro is a hand painted font family that comes in 5 styles: Regular, Bold, Bold Shadow, Bold Rough and Extra. It was designed with retail in mind, but is also perfectly suited for other uses. The flat brush that was used to hand paint all 424 glyphs creates a nonchalant stroke that adds a personal touch and plenty of pizzaz to your design. Combine Rover Pro Bold Shadow with the Bold and Rough styles for more variety and beautiful designs. For extra fun Rover Pro Extra adds another 85 glyphs to play around with. All in all Rover Pro is a smashing painted font family for virtually every project. Rover Pro is PUA encoded. This means that all Rover Pro's characters are fully accessible via Character Map or Font Book (that come with your PC or Mac).

Highriser is a highly legible, uppercase-only bold condensed sans. Designed to be used for headlines, or visual identities, both digital and print. One weight, fits all.

Streeter JNL is an all caps titling font based on the classic Beton Bold Condensed typeface. The Beton family of fonts was a printer's favorite for decades.

Floz is a simple and clean condensed all-caps sans serif font. It comes in two weights: regular (which is already pretty bold) and bold (which is even bolder). It works well for logos, headlines and other short texts. It's also quite cheap.

In the 1960s it was a popular trend to personalize one’s possessions with your initials. From wallets and handbags to eyeglasses; from luggage to even cars, initial personalization was the fad of the time. The British division of Gulf Oil offered for sale a set of gold metallic stick-on initials for 25 pence, complete with two Gulf logos so the company could get some extra advertising mileage out of the promotion. These extra-wide, bold initials served as the idea model for Personalization JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

A well-designed bold art deco font. Very chunky. Uppercase, lowercase, numerals and punctuation. CastleType additions to the Koloss family include Koloss Bold Condensed and Koloss Bold Wave. The latter was used beautifully in the wonderful children's book The Leaf Men (and the Brave Good Bugs) written and illustrated by William Joyce.

A solid powerful Bold condensed face great for headlines and sub heads and in some cases even as a text face. High Intensity will definitely get your attention.

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, condensed, bold, curved serifs, a very useful design for display, upper and lower case.

BD Westwork is a very condensed, bold and distinctive display typeface – great in combination and in contrast with delicate illustrations, photos and body text with and without serifes.

Marsden is a bold, no-nonsense Grotesque. It was designed for display, branding, advertising, packaging or anywhere a strong voice is needed. Marsden is built on a geometric foundation, with just enough warmth to keep the style confident and lively. The family features 8 widths in 12 weights; from a Slim Hairline to an extremely bold Wide Super. The fonts flow from condensed to wide with design intent. The condensed forms feature flat sides and subtle curves, while the wider forms feature rounded sides and open curves. The character set is robust, covering extended latin. The default forms are contemporary with alternates including: single-story a, two-story g, curved terminal l, raised vertex M, rounded top A, fully rounded G, rounded leg R, straight tail Q and straight descender y, all separated into individual style sets for control and customization. Completing the family are the Text fonts where the weights, widths and spacing are adjusted for smaller use.

Metrika is a sans serif font inspired by the trends of technology. It's works perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirts, postcards and many more. It includes full set of uppercase and lowercase basic characters, multilingual symbols, numerals and punctuation (check the previews in order to see them all). Weight: extra light (200 pt), regular (400 pt), bold (700 pt), outline (400 pt). Style: plain, oblique. Latin-based Language Support (You can check your language typing characters in text box below). A summary of what's included: Metrika extra light (otf) Metrika extra light oblique (otf) Metrika regular (otf) Metrika regular oblique (otf) Metrika bold (otf) Metrika bold oblique (otf) Metrika outline (otf) Metrika outline oblique (otf) Happy creating!

An original slab serif design inspired by the slab serif designs of the 19th century, with a modern geometric look, extra bold.

An inline version of the Latin bold condensed, and designed on the suggestion of Robert Harling. There is a double white line, which was originally engraved in Latin type.

Royalana is a modern royal font with a minimalist factor. A complete font set containing all the important glyphs. Royalana has been inspired by the very minimalist and compact designs in trend to deliver a new look and yet keeping the professional outlook of any design or print. Royalana font set includes; Royalana Light, Royalana Light Italic, Royalana Regular, Royalana Italic, Royalana Bold, Royalana Bold Italic, Royalana Extra Bold & Royalana Extra Bold Italic. Kufic Studio is a platform that provides professional and high-quality designs & fonts to fill the gap that has been missing in the market.

Introducing Gango, the ultimate Variable Font that combines sleek modernity with a playful pop style. This versatile typeface is designed to meet all your creative needs with its ten unique weights, ranging from the delicate Thin and Extra Light to the bold and heavy Extra Bold Heavy. Gango offers you complete control over your typography, allowing you to adjust the font's weight and width seamlessly, all in one font file.

Gillies Gothic font was originally designed by William S. Gillies for Bauer'sche Schriftgiesserei. The Extra Bold Weight was designed by Freda Sack at Letraset Design Studio and later the Extra Bold Shaded was designed by Phillip Kelly at Letraset. The extravagant capitals should be used as initials with the more reserved lowercase, and the lowercase should be set closely, overlapping where possible, to reproduce the look of true handwriting.

Originally made for the Observer newspaper, in London, this version of Plantin is more condensed than the standard typeface. This condensing is most noticeable in the capitals and the bold fonts. The News Plantin font family was designed primarily for use in a magazine supplement. It retains the robust nature of Plantin but provides better economy in text use.

Novel Pro is the humanist Antiqua typeface family within the largely extended award winning Novel Collection, also containing Novel Sans Pro, Novel Sans Hair, Novel Sans Condensed Pro, Novel Display, Novel Display Condensed, Novel Display Extra Condensed, Novel Display Compressed, Novel Display Extra Compressed, Novel Mono Pro, Novel Sans Rounded Pro and Novel Sans Office Pro. Classic proportions of a Renaissance Antiqua combined with modern details let Novel appear as a friendly and elegant but functional typeface. The almost upright letters of the narrow Italics create a vital contrast to the generous construction of the roman. All typeface families of the Novel Collection have a carefully attuned character design and a well balanced weight contrast. The fine gradation of 12 weights enable designers to create fine legible typography and combine the design with other members of the Novel Collection to reach highest quality in typography. Novel Pro [914 glyphs] comes in 12 styles and contains small caps, an extra set of alternate glyphs, many ligatures, lining figures [proportionally spaced and monospaced], hanging figures [proportionally spaced and monospaced], small caps figures [proportionally spaced and monospaced], positive and negative circled figures for upper and lower case, superior and inferior figures, fractions, extensive language support, arrows for uppercase and lowercase and many more OpenType™ features.

A modified remake of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century. An extra bold sans serif suitable for display.

A few scant examples of some condensed Roman style water-applied decals inspired Sign Letters JNL. The decals were once part of the gold and black "Signmaker" letters and numbers once manufactured by the Duro Decal Company of Chicago and were sold through hardware and variety stores across the country. The condensed letters (which were eight inches in height) did not sell as well as Duro's mainstay sizes of 1/2 inch to 3-1/2 inches and were discontinued long before the rest of the line was supplanted by self-adhesive lettering.

Cadenza is a bold condensed display font that combines flair with functionality, elegance with utility. Its weight and readability make it ideal for newspaper and magazine headlines, titling and signage.