Neutral Sans Workhorse
Snout + Taught
Lets Snout own the focal silhouette while handling secondary copy, sizing and subheads cleanly.
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Wide rugged stencil capitals with narrow vertical gaps and speckled fill
Snout
Snout is a wide industrial stencil in which heavy capitals are interrupted by narrow vertical gaps, the S and O stay round against straight-sided N, U and T shapes and a speckled fill roughens the surface, so a word reads as a sprayed crate marking.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Open counter bridges hold interior islands intact on laser-cut wood, acrylic, and mylar stencils.
Plotter & output verdictLaser & Stencil Bridge Ready
Recommended minimum scale0.85 in+ letter height
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessStandard Latin, Figures & Punctuation
Best surfaces & mediaWedding Suites · Foil Envelopes · Boutique Logos
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Snout.
The S turns a round spine, the O closes a wide ring, the N and U keep straight sides and every letter carries two or three narrow gaps cut from the top or bottom edge, with the speckle scattered across the fill. The gaps are the character: they let a wide letter read as a stencil without breaking the silhouette, which is why the sample sets a dark title on a metal collage. Because the gaps are narrow, the face wants 30 pt before they stay open, and it holds well in spray, print and vinyl from 0.85 inches of letter height. The metal and wood collage is artwork; the dark stencil letters are the face.
Stencil · Industrial · Wide
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Snout with grounded secondary typography.
Structured Secondary Voice
Snout + Raffined
Grounds bold display lettering with classic typographic authority on posters, badges and apparel.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Snout’s stroke geometry.
Sign for a tool shed
The stencil gaps suit a painted crate sign, and the wide capitals stay legible at 80 mm on a board seen from a driveway in one colour.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Paint a 600 by 250 mm board: set the word at 80 mm, keep every gap at 4 mm wide, and keep 25 mm of border all round so no gap sits on the painted edge.
Pre-production check
A stencil gap narrower than 3 mm fills with paint; check the board after the second coat and widen the gap rather than the letter.
Label for a hardware range
The industrial weight suits a product label, and the wide forms stay solid at 18 pt on a 60 mm panel printed in one flat ink.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 60 by 40 mm label: set the range name at 18 pt, set the size code in a 7 pt mono beneath, and keep 5 mm of border so the stencil gaps stay whole.
Pre-production check
Gaps printed at 12 pt close into solid letters; check the proof and keep the name at 16 pt or above.
Tote print for an outdoor brand
The rugged capitals read on canvas, and the stencil gaps stay open at 50 mm across a printed tote in a single dark colour.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 300 mm tote: set the words at 50 mm, keep 20 mm of clear canvas at the seam, and keep the handle stitching outside the printed block so no gap is folded.
Pre-production check
A stencil gap printed across a seam disappears in the fold; check the template and shift the block 18 mm inward.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Display · Wide rugged stencil capitals with narrow vertical gaps and speckled fill
- Foundry / creator
- greenvill
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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