Stencil Kisi 1 is a very bold, wide, low contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, album covers, event flyers, streetwear, punk, industrial, grunge, hand-cut, rebellious, stenciled effect, diy texture, high impact, edgy branding, poster display, angular, blocky, irregular, jagged, cutout.
A heavy, block-based display face built from angular, cut-paper silhouettes with deliberate breaks that create stencil-like bridges. The letterforms favor squared bowls and flattened curves, with uneven edges and slight skewing that produces a restless rhythm across a line. Counters are compact and often faceted, and joins are abrupt, emphasizing a chopped, constructed feel. Spacing and widths vary noticeably from glyph to glyph, reinforcing an intentionally irregular, handmade texture in both uppercase and lowercase.
Best suited for short, high-impact typography such as posters, headlines, album/track artwork, event flyers, and branding that wants a rugged DIY or industrial character. It performs especially well at display sizes where the stencil breaks and jagged contours become a defining texture.
The overall tone feels raw and confrontational, like hand-stenciled signage or DIY gig flyers. Its fractured construction reads as distressed and streetwise, projecting an underground, industrial energy rather than polish or refinement.
The design appears intended to mimic hand-cut or hand-stenciled lettering—solid, bold shapes interrupted by purposeful gaps—prioritizing attitude and graphic punch over neutrality. Its irregular widths and sharp, chipped geometry suggest a deliberately distressed aesthetic aimed at expressive display typography.
In text settings the broken strokes stay visually consistent, creating a repeating pattern of notches and gaps that gives the face a strong graphic signature. The numerals follow the same cutout logic, with bold, simplified shapes that remain legible at larger sizes where the internal breaks can be appreciated.