Lite Stencil

Lite Stencil's lowercase x reaches 74.7% of the capital height, close to the 74.2% median for stencil fonts, taller than 8 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise 3.9% above the capitals, and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 26.6% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 8 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Its letters are of average width for stencil fonts: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 79.6% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 92.1%), within 3.2% of the median. The o is close to a circle, 1.07 times as wide as it is tall, and W is the widest capital, at 1.29 times the width of H. Round letters overshoot: O rises 1.3% of the cap height above H and dips 1.3% below the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 11.4% of the cap height, lighter than 12 of the 14 other stencil fonts. Ink covers 27.6% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 10 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 35.4% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 13.6% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 116 kerning pairs, more than 13 of the 14 other stencil fonts. The tightest of them is LT, which closes up by 22.9% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Lite Stencil will not line up exactly.

19 other library fonts share Lite Stencil's underlying letter structure. Compared with Lite Stencil, Studio Bold keeps the letters plain, without the military stencil effect, sets 11% wider and puts down 29% more ink. Snowdrift adds caps of snow, puts down 50% more ink and has a 80% x-height. Atrium Sans keeps the letters plain, without the military stencil effect, sets 20% narrower and puts down 16% less ink.