The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Ostrich Sans
A tall, elegant condensed sans built for oversized headlines and posters.
About Ostrich Sans
Ostrich Sans is a tall, elegant condensed sans by Tyler Finck, released free through The League of Moveable Type in 2011. Its extreme vertical proportion, high waist, and fine detailing give it a refined, almost fashion-magazine bearing that most condensed grotesques never reach.
The family ranges from light to heavy plus inline and dashed variants, so it flexes from delicate to poster-black while keeping the same narrow footprint. It is a display face first — at headline and cover sizes the elongated forms look composed and deliberate, where at text sizes they close up too tightly. An Open Font License release, self-hosted here.
- Designer
- Tyler Finck
- Released
- 2011
- Available at
- The League of Moveable Type →
Display + body that work together
Pages that earn the read
The display sets the register; the body follows through. When both halves of a pair pull in the same direction, the design disappears and the words come forward.
Modern · Editorial Ostrich Sans + Source Serif 4
Letters that hold their nerve
Body type does the heavy lifting. Get it right and the reader never thinks about it; get it wrong and they feel it before they can name what is off.
Editorial · Modern Bodoni Moda + Ostrich Sans