Commercial · Sans serif · LucasFonts
Taz
Taz is a licensed font from LucasFonts: no price is printed on the pages read for it. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Taz is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Luc(as) de Groot
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Not read from the foundry’s page on 2026-09-04; see the page.
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
Condensed headline sans designed for the German daily taz, with tight line spacing in mind, plus a wider TazzerText cut for body copy with broken-construction italics.
Free alternatives to Taz
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Taz is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Barlow Condensed webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Barlow Condensed.
same classification
Condensed low-contrast sans with a similar newspaper-headline economy.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Roboto Condensed webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Roboto Condensed.
same classification
Condensed sans suited to the same tight headline setting.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Archivo Narrow webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Archivo Narrow.
same classification
Narrow grotesque with comparable compactness for news headlines.
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