Libre Caslon Condensed

Try Libre Caslon Condensed

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Libre Caslon Condensed Regular Italic
• Medium 500Libre Caslon Condensed Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Libre Caslon Condensed SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Libre Caslon Condensed Bold Bold Italic

About Libre Caslon Condensed

Libre Caslon Condensed is a serif family with compressed proportions. In the specimen the letters are tall and narrow, the serifs are bracketed, and the contrast between thick and thin strokes is clear without being extreme; the capital J and the tail of Q drop below the baseline, and the ampersand keeps a traditional looped form. The weight range is short: Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700, each with an italic, which gives eight styles as separate static files. It is not a variable font. The 554 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, including the letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech and Romanian. The catalogue credits Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Ertekin Erdin; the font's name table also lists Katja Schimmel. The copyright notice names The Libre Caslon Condensed Project Authors, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Libre Caslon Condensed works

Newspaper-style headlines

Narrow letters fit more words into a column-width headline, and SemiBold or Bold add the weight a headline needs.

Narrow columns and sidebars

Condensed proportions keep line breaks reasonable in margins, tables and info boxes.

Long titles on covers

A title that would run to three lines in a normal-width serif can often be held to two.

Pull quotes and bylines

Four italics, one per weight, allow quotations and credits to be set apart at any level of emphasis.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Libre Caslon 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 Libre Caslon 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: "Libre Caslon Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/libre-caslon-condensed-latin-400-italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Libre Caslon Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/libre-caslon-condensed-latin-400-normal.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Libre Caslon Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/libre-caslon-condensed-latin-500-italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Libre Caslon Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/libre-caslon-condensed-latin-500-normal.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 4 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Libre Caslon Condensed", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Libre Caslon 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=Libre+Caslon+Condensed:ital,wght@0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Eight static files

Each of the four weights has an upright and an italic TTF. There is no variable version in this package.

Latin-subset builds

The files offered here are Latin-subset builds of the family. The complete original fonts are available from the official source.

No light weights

The lightest weight is Regular 400 and the heaviest Bold 700.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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