Stardos Stencil

Try Stardos Stencil

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Stardos Stencil Regular
• Bold 700Stardos Stencil Bold

About Stardos Stencil

Stardos Stencil is a display typeface that cuts a high-contrast serif into stencil form. Thick vertical stems, thin flat serifs and ball terminals belong to a modern-style serif, while narrow gaps interrupt the bowls, arches and joins as they would on a physical stencil plate. The breaks are thin, so words remain easy to read and the stencil effect shows most at large sizes. Lowercase letters are included, along with numerals whose curves are broken in the same way. The official description presents it as a serif stencil intended purely for display use on the web, in browsers on desktop and mobile devices alike. The family has two weights, Regular and Bold, and no italics; it is not a variable font. Each font has 306 glyphs covering basic Latin and Western European accents. Vernon Adams is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Stardos Stencil works

Crate and cargo-style graphics

Stencil breaks recall markings sprayed on boxes, which suits shipping, workshop and warehouse themes.

Poster and event titles

High-contrast stems with stencil gaps give a title texture at large sizes.

Coffee, spirits and craft labels

A serif stencil reads as stamped or branded on sacks, barrels and kraft paper.

Web headings

Display headings on web pages are the use named in the official description.

Stencilled numbers

Numerals carry the same bridges, for lot numbers, dates and table numbers.

Glyphs

Language support

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

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Estonian

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 Stardos 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 Stardos 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: "Stardos Stencil";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/StardosStencil-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Stardos Stencil";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/StardosStencil-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Stardos 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=Stardos+Stencil:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Display only

The official description calls Stardos Stencil a display-only design; it is not meant for paragraphs.

Two weights, no italics

The family consists of Regular 400 and Bold 700.

Basic Latin only

The only subset is Latin; the Turkish ğ is not in the character map.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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