Typophile

fashionable modern alternative to bureau grot comp for book cover

Melaniesp

I need to find a super-condensed bold typeface for the cover of a small format paperback book. The cover is type-only and some of it will be spot laminated, so it needs to be very chunky. And we want to set the type very large.
At the moment we're using Bureau Grot compressed book, which is lovely, but feels a little too old and traditional. The book is about the art world, so it needs to look elegant but we'd like it to also look really fashionable/youthful. Someone suggested going for something more like Macula which looks fashionable, unusual, playful -- all good -- but it's not condensed enough to set at a really big size.
Can anyone suggest some attention-grabbing alternatives that have the required height and chunkiness?

Any help much appreciated -- thank you!

Try pairing Giorgo and Giorgo Sans by Commercial Type.
Or try the inevitable Knockout by H+FJ. ;)
And I think, with Dimensions by Flat-It you could generate great typographic images.

You probably could find something interesting in one of these lists: http://www.fontshop.com/search/fontlists?q=extra+bold

Try the Plan Grotesque Bold Condensed by Nikola Djurek
https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/plan_grot_condensed/bold/sample
Or maybe the Agipo Bold Condensed from Radim Pesko
http://www.radimpesko.com/fonts/agipo
Or also the Founders Grotesk from the Klim Type foundry
https://klim.co.nz/retail-fonts/founders-grotesk-condensed/
+ the Druk by Christian Schwartz
https://commercialtype.com/typefaces/druk/condensed

Thanks so much everyone, some really great suggestions here, this is a massive help. I love Giorgo.
thank you!

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