Stencil Railway Bold

The x-height is a compact 70.3% of the cap height, below the 74.2% median for stencil fonts, the lowest of all 15 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 29.7% of the cap height below the baseline, the deepest of all 15 stencil fonts. It sets narrow: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 77.8% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 77.8%), 5.4% less than the median for stencil fonts, so more words fit on a line. The o is an upright oval, 0.80 times as wide as it is tall, and every capital has the same width. O stands exactly as tall as H and sits on the baseline, with no overshoot.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Vertical stems measure 11% of the cap height, the lightest of all 15 stencil fonts. Ink covers 26% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), lighter than 12 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.

Its 159 characters include 116 Latin letters, plus 43 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 64 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 37.4% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 31.4% of its width. The font carries no kerning, so spacing comes from each letter’s own side bearings. All ten figures share one width, so columns of numbers line up.