Compressed Pro is visually similar to the typefaces Impact and Haettenschweiler, though it has a distinctively square shape in comparison.
It’s reminiscent of the extremely narrow, sans serif stencilled fonts of the 1920s, then intended as titles or headlines for magazines and posters. The characters of all cuts are narrow and the space between letters is very small. The white spaces between strokes are perceived almost as only small white stripes and dots which stand out from the black bands of the lines of text. Compressed Pro is not meant for longer texts but is impressive in titles and headlines.