It's especially interesting because there are many widths offered, including Semicondensed, Condensed and Extra-Condensed - similar to the Univers superfamily. I would consider the google-font 'Oswald' It comes only in 3 weights and has no italic or oblique version, but reminds me of the Univers Condensed type. Released under the SIL Open Font License.īy Omnibus-Type from Argentina, this font turns up the 'square'-ness of Univers Condensed up to 11.

By Erik Spiekermann, Ralph du Carrois, Anja Meiners, Botio Nikoltchev of Carrois Type Design and Patryk Adamczyk of. As of 2021, there is now a Condensed Regular (on Github, but not on Google Fonts yet).Ī very well designed sans serif with about the same width as Univers Condensed, but much more personality. It's considered more 'humanist' than the geometrical form of Univers, but may serve a similar purpose for you. If you don't need a look-alike recreation of Univers Condensed, you might consider these alternatives: Open Sans Condensed Search results for Human Black Cond font, free downloads of Human Black Cond fonts at. FontLibrary is a reputable site for open-source and free fonts: U001 Con.which merge discrete optical sizes (like Text and Display) and weights into a single. U001CON by URWįont foundry URW created a 'clone' of the Univers and Univers Condensed design and donated them to the Ghostscript / GhostPDL project as open-source software, under the Aladdin Free Public License. In general, avoid light font weights to help maintain readability. It's hard to find good-quality Condensed sans serif fonts as free/libre/Open Source software.

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