Roboto Condensed

Try Roboto Condensed

Weights and styles

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

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

About Roboto Condensed

Roboto Condensed is a narrow sans-serif typeface, the condensed branch of Christian Robertson's Roboto. The specimen shows tall, compressed letters with straight-sided round forms, flat terminals and close spacing, so a line holds noticeably more characters than a normal-width sans would. The official notes describe the parent design as a geometric, mechanical skeleton softened by open curves, and say the condensed family is meant to be used next to Roboto and Roboto Slab. It is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900 and nine named weights, Thin through Black, each with an italic: 18 styles. Its 1,321 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended and Greek. According to the notes the family was upgraded to a variable font in August 2023.

Where Roboto Condensed works

Dense interface labels

The compressed letter widths fit longer labels into buttons, tabs and navigation bars, and the nine weights give several levels of emphasis.

Tables and data-heavy layouts

Narrow columns hold more characters per cell, and the weight axis from 100 to 900 separates headers from values without a change of family.

Headlines in narrow columns

ExtraBold 800 and Black 900 stay compact, so a long headline fits a mobile screen or a single newspaper-style column.

Companion to Roboto body text

The notes state that the condensed family is made to work alongside Roboto and Roboto Slab, so captions and side notes can be set narrower in a matching design.

Multilingual signage and forms

Latin, Cyrillic and Greek are in the same fonts, so a form or sign in Russian or Greek keeps the same narrow proportions.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, 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 Roboto 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 Roboto 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: "Roboto Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RobotoCondensed-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Roboto Condensed";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RobotoCondensed-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Roboto 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=Roboto+Condensed:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two variable files

Upright and italic are separate variable fonts, each with only the weight axis, running from 100 to 900. Width is fixed: there is no width axis.

No polytonic Greek

Greek is covered for modern use, but the Greek Extended subset is not among the character sets.

Variable since August 2023

The notes record that the family became a variable font in August 2023; the files here carry version 3.008.

FAQs

Collections with Roboto Condensed

• Fonts for subtitles and video captions

  Plain, sturdy sans-serif families for subtitles and captions, chosen for clear letters at small sizes and, in most cases, wide language coverage.

• 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.

• Condensed fonts for headlines

  Narrow sans-serif and serif display fonts that set tall, compact headlines in limited width, from hairline to heavy.

Similar fonts

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