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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
2 weights · Display
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Stardos Stencil
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.690
stroke weight
17% of cap height
0.174
contrast
High
0.985
letter width
Normal
0.929
Web embed
Use Stardos Stencil on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Stardos+Stencil:wght@400;700&display=swap');
/* Stardos Stencil */
body {
font-family: 'Stardos Stencil', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Stardos Stencil
- Category
- Display
- Designers
- Vernon Adams
- Added to Google Fonts
- July 6, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- latin
About the Stardos Stencil font
Stardos Stencil is a display typeface designed by Vernon Adams, first released to Google Fonts on July 2011. It ships with 2 weights and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 69% of the cap height, normal letter forms and high stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Stardos Stencil against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Stardos Stencil is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.