Cadet Stencil

Its x-height is 72.4% of the cap height, near the 74.2% typical of stencil fonts in the library, lower than 8 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (100% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 27.6% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 7 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Its letters are of average width for stencil fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 82.2% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 97.8%), within 0% of the median. The o is close to a circle, 1.09 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.14 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 2.8% of the cap height above H and dips 1.4% below the baseline.

The letters lean about 8° to the right, where most stencil fonts in the library stand upright. Vertical stems measure 17.2% of the cap height, heavier than 12 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Ink covers 35.3% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 9 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Strokes keep one thickness in every direction: the sides of o and O measure the same as their tops and bottoms. 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 37.2% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 11.2% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 90 kerning pairs, fewer than 8 of the 14 other stencil fonts. The tightest of them is YA, which closes up by 27.7% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Cadet Stencil will not line up exactly.

Cadet Stencil is drawn on the same letter structure as 4 other fonts in the library. Compared with Cadet Stencil, Field Stencil stands upright. Corps Condensed Stencil stands upright and sets 20% narrower. Bitline Pixel rebuilds the letters on a pixel grid, stands upright and sets 18% narrower.