Philadelphia Font

About Philadelphia Font

Philadelphia is an American drama movie released in 1993 starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.

The font used for the movie title in the poster is probably Compacta Light Compressed. Designed by Fred Lambert in 1963, Compacta is reminiscent of the extremely narrow, sans serif stenciled typefaces of the 1920s. The typeface is a commercial one and you can view more details about it here.

Download Compacta Font

The Compacta font identified above is not available for free, please follow the link above and purchase a font license to download and use the font. Meanwhile, you can take a look at our collection of fonts for cars, pop music and apparel as well as round-ups of new & fresh fonts around the web.

Compacta Typeface in Use

In addition to Philadelphia, Compacta typeface is also used in the following logos, movie posters or album covers, etc., including: Trench (Twenty One Pilots), Pitch Perfect, Pretty Woman, Spies in Disguise, Harley Davidson, Team Fortress 2, Burnout Paradise, Lego Dimensions, The Apprentice, Singles Going Steady, The Infamous (Mobb Deep), Road To Hill 30, Hell’s Highway, 3 Backyards, Parental Advisory Label.

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