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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
1 weight · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Special Gothic Condensed One
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.717
stroke weight
20% of cap height
0.195
contrast
Low
0.235
letter width
Condensed
0.719
Web embed
Use Special Gothic Condensed One on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Special+Gothic+Condensed+One&display=swap');
/* Special Gothic Condensed One */
body {
font-family: 'Special Gothic Condensed One', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Special Gothic Condensed One
A curated serif companion that balances the tone of Special Gothic Condensed One.
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Details
- Family
- Special Gothic Condensed One
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Alistair McCready
- Added to Google Fonts
- April 7, 2025
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin, latin-ext
About the Special Gothic Condensed One font
Special Gothic Condensed One is a sans-serif typeface designed by Alistair McCready, first released to Google Fonts on April 2025. It ships with 1 weight and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 72% of the cap height, condensed letter forms and low stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Special Gothic Condensed One against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Special Gothic Condensed One is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.