Field Stencil

Field Stencil's lowercase x reaches 74.2% of the capital height, close to the 74.2% median for stencil fonts, taller than 7 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 28.8% of the cap height below the baseline, deeper than 11 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Its letters are of average width for stencil fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 78.1% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 93.3%), within 5% of the median. The o is close to a circle, 1.06 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.16 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 3% of the cap height above H and dips 1.4% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 14.3% of the cap height, lighter than 8 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Ink covers 32.5% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 7 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 36.3% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 15.6% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 95 kerning pairs, more than 8 of the 14 other stencil fonts. The tightest of them is AY, which closes up by 26.2% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Field Stencil will not line up exactly.

4 other library fonts share Field Stencil's underlying letter structure. Compared with Field Stencil, Civic Sans keeps the letters plain, without the military stencil effect, sets 13% narrower and puts down 30% less ink. Bitline Pixel rebuilds the letters on a pixel grid, sets 13% narrower and puts down 17% less ink. Corps Condensed Stencil sets 16% narrower.