Encode Sans Condensed

Try Encode Sans Condensed

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Encode Sans Condensed Thin
• ExtraLight 200Encode Sans Condensed ExtraLight
• Light 300Encode Sans Condensed Light
• Regular 400Encode Sans Condensed Regular
• Medium 500Encode Sans Condensed Medium
• SemiBold 600Encode Sans Condensed SemiBold
• Bold 700Encode Sans Condensed Bold
• ExtraBold 800Encode Sans Condensed ExtraBold
• Black 900Encode Sans Condensed Black

About Encode Sans Condensed

Encode Sans Condensed is a narrow sans serif, one of five widths in the Encode Sans superfamily alongside Normal, Semi Condensed, Semi Expanded and Expanded versions. In the specimen the letters are tall and compressed, round shapes have partly straightened sides, and the strokes stay almost uniform from the hairline Thin to a dense Black. The family offers nine weights, Thin 100 to Black 900, as nine static files; it is not a variable font and has no italic. Each font holds 1,200 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Impallari Type, a foundry from Rosario in Argentina, leads the project; Pablo Impallari and Andres Torresi drew the first version, and Jacques Le Bailly is also credited. The fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with the Reserved Font Name Encode Sans.

Where Encode Sans Condensed works

Headlines in narrow columns

Compressed letters fit long titles on one line, and Bold to Black keep them dark.

Data tables

The narrow width leaves room for more columns, and Regular with SemiBold separates values from headers.

Navigation bars and tabs

Short labels take less horizontal space than they would in the Normal width.

Wayfinding and schedules

Nine weights give a clear hierarchy for timetables and signs where space per line is fixed.

Layouts mixing widths

It shares its design with the other Encode Sans families, so a condensed heading can sit over normal-width text.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Encode Sans Condensed

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Encode Sans Condensed on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Encode Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/EncodeSansCondensed-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Encode Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/EncodeSansCondensed-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Encode Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/EncodeSansCondensed-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Encode Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/EncodeSansCondensed-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 5 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Encode Sans Condensed", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Encode Sans Condensed with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Encode+Sans+Condensed:wght@100;200;300;400;500;600;700;800;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Static files, not variable

This family is delivered as nine separate TTF files. The regular Encode Sans family is the one with variable axes.

No italic

All nine styles are upright.

Reserved Font Name

The copyright notice reserves the name Encode Sans for the original version.

FAQs

Collections with Encode Sans Condensed

• Narrow sans-serif fonts for tables and tight layouts

  Condensed and semi-condensed text families that fit more characters per line in tables, sidebars, forms and mobile screens.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts