The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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Druk Condensed
Commercial Type publishes Druk Condensed, designed by Berton Hasebe and first drawn in 2011 for the Year in Review issue of Bloomberg Businessweek. The Druk collection was conceived as a study in extremes, deliberately skipping normal widths and lighter weights, and Condensed is its narrowest end: Super, X Super and XX Super weights with flat sides that lock letters into solid vertical blocks. Hasebe calls it the most explicit homage to Willy Fleckhaus in the family, and he kept terminals and crossbars from aligning too often so headlines never turn monotonous. These free condensed grotesques work the same poster register without the license fee.
The closest font to Druk CondensedThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
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- Is Druk Condensed free?
- No — Druk Condensed is a commercial typeface from Commercial Type. Druk Condensed is a commercial typeface licensed through Commercial Type for desktop, web and app use. The closest free alternative is Anton, available on Google Fonts.
- What font is similar to Druk Condensed?
- Anton is the closest free match. A reworking of classic advertising grotesques into a single heavy condensed weight, which is the same brief Druk Condensed answers. It fills a headline with dense, flat-sided black type in much the same way, though it has only one weight and no italic, and its forms are slightly rounder at the shoulders.
- Can I use Anton in commercial projects?
- Yes — Anton is published under a free license on Google Fonts and can be used in commercial work. Confirm the license text at the source before shipping.