Libre Caslon Condensed
Designed By
Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Ertekin Erdin
8 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Libre Caslon Condensed · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
8 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Libre Caslon Condensed ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Second edition, revised and enlarged
A Page In Libre Caslon Condensed
Libre Caslon Condensed · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
8 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
Second edition, revised and enlarged
Semi Bold600
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Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
Second edition, revised and enlarged
Bold Italic700
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A Caslon pulled in at the sides. Ertekin Erdin started from Libre Caslon Text, the web Caslon by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida, and narrowed it, because good condensed serifs are hard to find. It was added to Google Fonts in August 2026.
The family it comes from has an unusual source. Libre Caslon follows the hand-lettered Caslon of 1950s advertising, the way lettering artists drew it for ads, 2 centuries after William Caslon’s own specimens. Narrowed, it gets thrifty with space: set next to Arial, a line of it comes out about 13% shorter.
That matters in a sidebar or a 2 column magazine page, where a normal serif breaks a headline in 3 and this one may hold it to 2.
What the 8 files carry:
- Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, each with its own italic
- old style and lining figures, in tabular and proportional spacing, and a slashed zero
- standard and discretionary ligatures, ordinals, fractions, super and subscripts
- Latin with the extended accents
Our pick would be headlines and pull quotes in SemiBold, with Libre Caslon Text in the column below.
Characters & Figures
455 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Libre Caslon Condensed
8 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 603 KB ↓- Version
- 2.000
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/libre-caslon-condensed/libre-caslon-condensed.css">
body {
font-family: 'Libre Caslon Condensed', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Libre Caslon Condensed Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.