Oldschool Grotesk
sans-serifgrotesquecondenseditalic
A large grotesque family from Kilotype spanning four widths and ten weights, rooted in the nineteenth-century European grotesque tradition.
About
The family runs from Air to Heavy across standard, Compact, Condensed and Compressed widths, each with matching italics, giving 80 styles in total. The name signals a deliberate debt to the old-style grotesques that preceded the refined Swiss sanses, preserving some of their rawer proportions and texture. That breadth makes it practical across editorial, identity and poster work wherever width contrast is useful.
Classification
The name and visual character point squarely to the nineteenth-century grotesque tradition, with the breadth of weights and widths typical of contemporary revivals in that lineage.
Weights
AirThinExtra LightLightBookRegularMediumBoldExtra BoldHeavy
Optical sizes and widths
standardCompactCondensedCompressed
Family
Oldschool Grotesk CompactOldschool Grotesk CondensedOldschool Grotesk Compressed
Languages
Latin
Tags
grotesquenineteenth-centuryeditorialposterextended-familygermanversatile