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Caslon Doric Condensed Font Family

The condensed sans is one of the most useful styles; it allows the printer and designer to make letters as large as possible in the smallest horizontal space. With flat sided shapes, letters virtually touch each other, creatingthe densest black with minimal interior counter shapes. Appearing in the early 1830s, virtually all British foundries, including Caslon, made all capital variants in the following decade, with only Thorowgood making a lowercase version. Caslon Doric Condensed takes the original Doric style and merges it with the condensed style with lowercase that Caslon started to cut in the final quarter of the century, with its distinctive hook like and angled terminals. With ten weights from hairline to black with a distinctive angled italic, it is a highly useful characterful condensed sans.