Depot Round Stencil

With an x-height of 77.1% of the cap height, its lowercase stands above the 74.2% median for stencil fonts, taller than 11 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 3.4% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 24% of the cap height below the baseline, level with the shallowest of the 15 stencil fonts. Its letters are of average width for stencil fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 79.4% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 90.2%), within 3.4% of the median. The o is close to a circle, 0.99 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.18 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 20% of the cap height, level with the heaviest of the 15 stencil fonts. Ink covers 40.3% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), the darkest of all 15 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 33.1% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 15.9% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 67 kerning pairs, fewer than 10 of the 14 other stencil fonts. The tightest of them is Tm, which closes up by 15.4% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Depot Round Stencil will not line up exactly.

Depot Round Stencil is drawn on the same letter structure as 19 other fonts in the library. Compared with Depot Round Stencil, Lite Stencil puts down 32% less ink. Peppermint cuts candy-cane stripes through the letters, sets 19% wider and puts down 48% less ink. Orb Pixel rebuilds the letters on a pixel grid.