Allerta Stencil

Try Allerta Stencil

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Allerta Stencil Regular

About Allerta Stencil

Allerta Stencil is a display typeface in which letters are interrupted by narrow gaps, as if sprayed through a stencil plate. Beneath the breaks is a sturdy sans serif with fairly heavy strokes and open shapes. In the specimen the gaps appear where bowls meet stems in letters like a, b, d and p, across the crossbar of A, and through S, 0, 6, 8 and 9, while straight letters such as E, H and L stay whole. The official notes explain that Allerta was first developed for signage, to be read quickly and from far away, with every glyph shaped so it is hard to confuse with another. Matt McInerney designed it. The family has one Regular style, without italic or bold. Its 188 glyphs cover basic Latin; French is complete except for the æ and œ ligatures, and there are no curly braces.

Where Allerta Stencil works

Signs and wayfinding

The underlying letterforms were drawn to be told apart at a distance, and the stencil cuts add an industrial accent.

Crate-style labels and packaging

Stencil breaks suggest lettering sprayed on boxes, sacks and containers.

Poster and flyer headlines

A single sturdy weight holds up at large sizes, where the cuts in each letter become the main feature.

Short wordmarks

A one-word name in Allerta Stencil has enough built-in detail to stand without extra graphics.

Section titles on websites

Used sparingly above a plain text face, it marks section starts in Western European languages.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Finnish
• Estonian

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French æ, Æ, œ, Œ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Allerta Stencil

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Allerta Stencil on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Allerta Stencil";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AllertaStencil-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Allerta Stencil", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Allerta Stencil with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Allerta+Stencil&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One weight

Allerta Stencil exists only as Regular 400. There is no bold or italic.

Small character set

The font has 188 glyphs in the basic Latin subset, without curly braces and without the æ and œ ligatures.

Reserved Font Name

The license notice reserves the name Allerta for the original; a modified version needs another name unless permission is given.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All display fonts