Brigade Wide Stencil

Its lowercase is tall: the x-height is 76.3% of the cap height, against a median of 74.2% for stencil fonts, taller than 10 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 3.6% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 24.9% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 10 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Brigade Wide Stencil runs 31.8% wider than the median for stencil fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 108.3% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 123%). The o is wider than it is tall, 1.39 to 1, and W is the widest capital, at 1.29 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.1% of the cap height above H and dips 1.1% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 17.1% of the cap height, heavier than 9 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Ink covers 35.1% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 8 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Bridges cut through junctions, sharp corners and the tops of open curves, as on a military stencil plate.

Its 148 characters include 105 Latin letters, plus 43 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 53 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 45.6% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 14.6% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 98 kerning pairs, more than 10 of the 14 other stencil fonts. The tightest of them is LY, which closes up by 30.1% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Brigade Wide Stencil will not line up exactly.

12 other library fonts share Brigade Wide Stencil's underlying letter structure. Compared with Brigade Wide Stencil, Sunset Shadow adds a separate drop shadow, puts down 28% more ink and adds Filipino, Japanese (kana), Malay and 2 more languages. Block 3D adds a 3D extrusion, sets 9% narrower and puts down 38% more ink. Ballroom Inline cuts a thin line along each stroke, sets 14% narrower and puts down 15% more ink.