Handwriting · Ertekin Erdin

Nafile Condensed

Your words – they follow you round the site

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Size72 px

Weight400 Regular

Letter spacing0 em

Line height1.10

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CSSfont-family: 'Nafile Condensed', cursive; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;

Nafile Condensed is a free handwriting font by Ertekin Erdin, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 331 handwriting faces on FontKind, Nafile Condensed has an x-height taller than 94%, is wider than 98% and, at its regular weight, is lighter than 71%. Its thickest strokes are 0.2 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.

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01 / Light table

Laid on top of Eagle Lake

Nafile Condensed on one light table with its two closest fonts, Eagle Lake (40 out of 100) and Lumanosimo (27). Eagle Lake is 15% heavier, with more stroke contrast and an x-height 12% shorter; Lumanosimo is 8% narrower, with more stroke contrast and an x-height 6% shorter.

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Ink shared with Nafile CondensedEagle Lake…

Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.

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02 / Letters

The Nafile Condensed alphabet

Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400

Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.

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Learning cursive? The cursive alphabet, letter by letter →

03 / Weights

Nafile Condensed in 5 weights

5 weights, 100–900

100 Thin
300 Light
400 Regular
700 Bold
900 Black

04 / Facts

Who made Nafile Condensed, and can you use it?

Designer: Ertekin Erdin
Kind: Handwriting
Styles: 5 weights, 100–900
From: GitHub
Character sets: latin
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Can I use it?

Commercial use: Yes.
Logos: Yes.
Websites and apps: Yes. Self-hosted.
PDFs and documents: Yes.
Changes: Yes.
Sharing the files: Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.

Nafile Condensed is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.

What each licence allows →

Read the licence

Its licence file, in its repository

Already in your apps?

Google Docs: Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and Nafile Condensed comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Google’s guide
Word, PowerPoint: Not verified. Install it from its maker’s repository on GitHub first. Microsoft’s list
Figma: Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
Canva: Not verified. Search its font menu for Nafile Condensed, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
Cricut: Once installed. Design Space lists Nafile Condensed under System. Fonts for Cricut →

From each app’s own font list or help pages.

How each app gets its fonts →

Get Nafile Condensed on GitHub

05 / Measurements

Nafile Condensed, measured

Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style

Hxgp in Nafile Condensed. Lines at the measured heights, as a share of the em · The parts of a letter, named

x-height: 59.0% of the emlowercase x
Cap height: 80.0% of the emcapitals
x / cap: 0.74lowercase against capitals
Width: 68.2% of the emaverage lowercase
Ink: 39%letter box filled
Contrast: 0.21 : 1nearly even strokes

How we measure →

Where it stands among handwriting faces

Ranked against all 331 handwriting faces on FontKind

x-heightLarger than 94% of handwriting faces
WidthWider than 98% of handwriting faces
InkLighter than 71% of handwriting faces
ContrastMore even than 99% of handwriting faces

06 / Similar fonts

Fonts similar to Nafile Condensed

Matched letter by letter · its own family apart

Nafile Condensed's own familyNafile Extra CondensedNafile NarrowNafileNafile Semi ExpandedNafile Expanded

All 100 fonts similar to Nafile Condensed →Compare side by side →Get Nafile Condensed on GitHub

07 / Swap

Swap Nafile Condensed without a jump

Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%

Gyrotrope0text 0.9% narrower · x-height 4.7% shorter

Fallback while it loads

Until Nafile Condensed loads, this sets Arial in its place at 145.6% of its size, so running text keeps Nafile Condensed’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Nafile Condensed Fallback';
  src: local('Arial');
  size-adjust: 145.58%;
  ascent-override: 63.40%;
  descent-override: 19.03%;
  line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}

font-family: 'Nafile Condensed', 'Nafile Condensed Fallback', sans-serif;

08 / Questions

Questions about Nafile Condensed

Answered from its licence, GitHub and each app’s own font list

Is Nafile Condensed free for commercial use?

Yes. Nafile Condensed is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

How do I download and install Nafile Condensed?

Nafile Condensed comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, and unzip the file: the fonts are in its fonts/ttf/static folder. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses load from its repository, through jsDelivr, as does its licence file .

Is Nafile Condensed in Google Docs?

Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Nafile Condensed comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.

How many weights does Nafile Condensed have?

Nafile Condensed comes in five weights: Thin (100), Light (300), Regular (400), Bold (700) and Black (900).

Who designed Nafile Condensed?

Nafile Condensed was designed by Ertekin Erdin. Ertekin Erdin also made Libre Caslon Condensed and Haskoy.

What fonts are similar to Nafile Condensed?

The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Eagle Lake (40), Lumanosimo (27) and Cuban (19), out of 100. Next to Nafile Condensed, Eagle Lake is 15% heavier, with more stroke contrast and an x-height 12% shorter. Its own family, listed apart, adds Nafile Extra Condensed, Nafile Narrow, Nafile and two more. See all 100 fonts like Nafile Condensed.