Stick No Bills

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Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Stick No Bills ExtraLight
• Light 300Stick No Bills Light
• Regular 400Stick No Bills Regular
• Medium 500Stick No Bills Medium
• SemiBold 600Stick No Bills SemiBold
• Bold 700Stick No Bills Bold
• ExtraBold 800Stick No Bills ExtraBold

Stick No Bills is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Stick No Bills

Stick No Bills is a stencil typeface: each letter is cut by narrow gaps where a real stencil would need bridges to hold its shape. In the specimen the letters are tall and condensed, with straight sides, flat terminals and breaks at the top and bottom of round forms such as O, C and a. According to the official notes, the Latin was first made by Mooniak as the brand typeface of the Stick No Bills poster gallery in the Sri Lankan city of Galle; the project was later opened up and a matching Sinhala set was added. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 800 and seven named weights, ExtraLight to ExtraBold. Its 852 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Sinhala. There is no italic.

Where Stick No Bills works

Poster titles

The face started as a poster gallery's own lettering, and its narrow letters fit long titles across a sheet.

Sinhala and English signage

A Sinhala set drawn to match the Latin lets a bilingual sign keep one stencil look.

Stamped and sprayed effects

The stencil breaks suggest crates, street marking and spray paint without any added texture.

Brand systems built on one stencil

Seven weights from ExtraLight to ExtraBold let a logo, a tagline and small labels share the same cut letterforms.

Tight headline widths

Condensed proportions fit more characters per line than a regular-width face at the same size.

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
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Sinhala. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, sinhala. 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 Stick No Bills

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 Stick No Bills 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: "Stick No Bills";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/StickNoBills-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Stick No Bills", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Stick No Bills 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=Stick+No+Bills:wght@200..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Stencil gaps are part of every letter

The breaks do not switch off. At text sizes they turn into noise, so this is a heading and signage face.

One variable file

The download is a single variable font covering weights 200 to 800; the seven named weights are positions on that axis.

No italic

The family has seven upright styles and no slanted version.

FAQs

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