Typecase

Open licence · Sans serif

Roboto Condensed

Free · open licenceGet it from Google Fonts →

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Roboto Condensed webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Roboto Condensed.

Roboto Condensedthe specimen, from Google Fonts

Measured character

tall x-heightnarrowflat contrast

Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.

Fonts similar to Roboto Condensed, measured

Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the sans serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Roboto Condensed, in words, never a percentage.

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Ropa Sans webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Ropa Sans.

Ropa Sansclose on every measure

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Fresca webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Fresca.

Frescaslightly rounder bowls

Quiet luxury, approachable

The Strait webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Strait.

Straitslightly narrower bowls

These are the first 3 of 992 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.

What $39 buys →

Roboto Condensed as a free alternative to

Roboto Condensed is suggested on 8 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.

In the app

Search the whole open catalogue by name, category and measured character, preview every result in your own words, and save it to a Board. Open the app — the shelf, search and the first three results of any search are free.