# Wallpoet font

> A stencil display face built only from straight strokes and clipped corners, made for cut-and-spray templates.

Wallpoet is a stencil display typeface by Lars Berggren, drawn without curves so that its letters can be printed, cut out and sprayed. Wallpoet comes in a single Regular style with 240 glyphs in the basic Latin character set. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits slogans, posters and short titles.

## Facts

- Classification: [Display](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/display)
- Designed by: Lars Berggren
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 240
- Character sets: latin
- Last updated: 2025-06-02
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Wallpoet
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/wallpoet
- Tagged for: Headlines, Posters, Logos, Signage

## About Wallpoet

Wallpoet is a stencil display typeface in which every curve has been replaced by straight strokes and clipped corners. Lars Berggren drew it with the short political and humorous messages sprayed on city walls in mind, and the official notes sum up the working idea as print, cut and spray: the bridges that hold a stencil together are part of each letter. In the specimen the forms are wide and heavy, bowls become rectangles with chamfered corners, and the zero carries a diagonal slash. A full lowercase sits alongside the capitals. The family is one Regular style with 240 glyphs covering the basic Latin set, enough for English, French, German, Spanish and the Nordic languages. Wallpoet is not a variable font and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 6 April 2011, Lars Berggren (lars@punktlars.se), with Reserved Font Name Wallpoet.

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it works

- **Cut-and-spray stencils**: With no curves and a bridge in every closed letter, the outlines can be printed, cut from card and sprayed without the counters dropping out.
- **Slogan posters**: Wide, heavy letters carry a five-word message at poster size, the kind of wall text the design was drawn after.
- **Game and tech titles**: Rectangular bowls and chamfered corners give title screens, level names and stream overlays a machined look.
- **Crate-style labels**: Stencil breaks read as stamped marking, and the slashed zero keeps batch codes and numbers unambiguous on a label.

## Things to know

- **Regular only**: Wallpoet has one weight, Regular 400. There is no bold, light or italic.
- **Basic Latin character set**: The 240 glyphs belong to the latin subset. Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Greek are not part of the font.
- **Zero is slashed**: In the specimen the zero carries a diagonal slash, which separates it from the capital O in codes.

## FAQs

### Is Wallpoet free for commercial use?

Yes. Wallpoet is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

### Who designed Wallpoet?

Wallpoet was designed by Lars Berggren, who is also named in the copyright notice and as the holder of the Reserved Font Name.

### Is Wallpoet a real stencil font?

Yes. Wallpoet is drawn as a stencil: closed shapes are broken by bridges and there are no curves, so the letters can be cut from a sheet and sprayed.

### Does Wallpoet have lowercase letters?

Yes. Wallpoet includes capitals, a separate lowercase, numerals and punctuation, all in the same stencil construction.

### Which languages does Wallpoet support?

Wallpoet includes the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Estonian and the Nordic languages.

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