Clarinet Compressed
Setup Type · Ondrej Jób · 2025
A compressed modern serif by Ondrej Jób with high contrast, flared terminals and eight weights from Hair to Black.
About
Clarinet Compressed draws on multiple periods of letterform history to produce a high-contrast serif with chiselled detail and a compressed width suited to display and editorial work. Eight styles run from Hair to Black, with proportional lining figures as default alongside proportional oldstyle and tabular lining alternates. OpenType features include a stylistic set offering single-storey 'a', standard ligatures and ordinals, across a glyph set covering over 100 languages in Basic and Extended Latin.
Classification
High contrast between thick and thin strokes with flared terminals and compressed proportions places this firmly in the modern serif tradition, drawing on neoclassical letterform conventions.