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FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE

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Narrow fonts

Linotype suggest seven condensed (narrow) fonts:

• Monotype Grotesque Extra Condensed.
• Helvetica from Max Miedinger, which is similar to Monotype Grotesque, was expanded by Tom Grace to Neue Helvetica with new, extra-narrow compressed styles.
• Linotype Octane Regular (Norbert Reiners) has truncated tops, square dots and a large x-height.
• Anzeigen Grotesk (Haas Type Foundry) is a minimal contrast extreme x-height grotesque that is legible in very small sizes.
• ITC Roswell Two (Jim Parkinson) is more geared to posters.
• Binner Gothic (Monotype).
• Facade (Steve Matteson). More a display font for large sizes, this font is added to the list for mysterious reasons.

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