Special Gothic Condensed One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Special Gothic Condensed One Regular

About Special Gothic Condensed One

Special Gothic Condensed One is a condensed grotesque sans serif that packs dark, narrow letters closely together. In the specimen the round letters have straight sides, as if an O had been squeezed into a tall capsule, the apertures of a, e, c and s are nearly closed, and the lowercase rises to most of the capital height. Stroke contrast is low, with a little thinning where curves join stems. Although the file is labelled Regular 400, the letters are as dark as a bold in most families. The family consists of this one static style: 530 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended character sets, with neither italic nor variable axes. Alistair McCready is credited as designer, the font files name Monolith as manufacturer, and the license notice refers to The Special Gothic Project Authors under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Special Gothic Condensed One works

News and magazine headlines

Narrow, dark letters fit a long headline into a single column width at a large size.

Posters and event bills

Capsule-shaped rounds and tight spacing build solid blocks of type for names and dates.

Mastheads and section labels

The tall lowercase keeps short words compact and even, in capitals or mixed case.

Thumbnails and social cards

A few words in this weight stay readable over an image because the strokes are thick.

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 Special Gothic Condensed One

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 Special Gothic Condensed One 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: "Special Gothic Condensed One";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SpecialGothicCondensedOne-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Special Gothic Condensed One", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Special Gothic Condensed One 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=Special+Gothic+Condensed+One&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Heavy despite the label

The style is registered as Regular 400, so CSS font-weight: 400 selects it; requesting bold makes the browser thicken it artificially.

One style

There is no lighter cut, italic or wider width in this family.

Closed apertures

The nearly shut openings of a, e and s seen in the specimen fill in at small sizes, so the face belongs in headings.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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