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Reddit Sans Condensed

Narrow-width humanist sans serif made for Reddit, variable from ExtraLight to Black.

Sans Serif 8 styles · variable by Stephen Hutchings, OrangeRed OFL

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Reddit Sans Condensed is a narrow humanist sans serif made for Reddit and credited to Stephen Hutchings, a companion to Reddit Sans and Reddit Mono. Reddit Sans Condensed is a variable font with a weight axis from ExtraLight 200 to Black 900, without italics. Reddit Sans Condensed is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits dense interfaces.

Reddit Sans Condensed font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Stephen Hutchings, OrangeRed
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
8 8 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 200–900
Glyphs
1,045
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.014
Used for
HeadlinesInterfacesBoldCondensed

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Reddit Sans Condensed

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Reddit Sans Condensed; the download contains the complete files.

Reddit Sans Condensed font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Reddit Sans Condensed specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

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

Reddit Sans Condensed is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Reddit Sans Condensed

Reddit Sans Condensed is a condensed sans serif typeface with humanist letterforms. Letters are compressed without turning rigid: bowls stay round, apertures stay open, and the two-storey a keeps its text shape. The official description is brief and says only that the typeface was made for Reddit and has Reddit Sans and Reddit Mono as companions. The family is a variable font with one axis, weight, from 200 to 900, covering eight weights from ExtraLight to Black. There are no italics. In the specimen the letters gain weight without spreading much sideways, so even Black stays compact enough for tight headlines. The 1,045 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Stephen Hutchings is named as designer in the font, and Google Fonts also credits OrangeRed; the copyright notice names Reddit, Inc.

Where Reddit Sans Condensed works

Dense interface areas
Sidebars, metadata rows and tab bars hold more characters per line in a condensed width.
Headlines with a width limit
Black 900 stays narrow, so a long headline can be heavy and still fit a card or a mobile screen.
Labels in tables and charts
ExtraLight to Medium give quiet axis labels and column heads that do not crowd the data.
A narrow voice beside Reddit Sans
The condensed family shares its design with Reddit Sans, which lets it take over where space runs short.
Interfaces in many languages
Latin Extended and Vietnamese cover Turkish, Polish, Czech, Romanian and Vietnamese.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,045 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright © 2020-23, Reddit, Inc. (https://github.com/reddit/redditsans)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Reddit Sans Condensed

Reddit Sans Sans Serif

Reddit Sans is the regular-width family that Reddit Sans Condensed complements, so body text and narrow labels share one design.

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 Reddit 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Reddit Sans Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RedditSansCondensed-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italics
Reddit Sans Condensed has upright styles only.
One variable file
The whole family is a single variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 900.
No Thin weight
The lightest weight is ExtraLight 200.

FAQs

Is Reddit Sans Condensed free for commercial use?

Yes. Reddit Sans Condensed is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Reddit Sans Condensed?

Reddit Sans Condensed names Stephen Hutchings as designer and Reddit as manufacturer. Google Fonts also credits OrangeRed.

How many weights does Reddit Sans Condensed have?

Reddit Sans Condensed has eight weights, from ExtraLight 200 to Black 900, all upright.

Is Reddit Sans Condensed a variable font?

Yes. Reddit Sans Condensed is a variable font with a weight axis that runs from 200 to 900.

Which languages does Reddit Sans Condensed support?

Reddit Sans Condensed includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Spanish, German, French, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese.

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