Stencil Soda 2 is a bold, wide, medium contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, headlines, packaging, signage, logos, industrial, nautical, western, poster-like, rugged, stenciled display, rugged branding, industrial marking, vintage signage, slab serif, bracketed serifs, chiseled, ink-trap-like, high impact.
A heavy, right-leaning slab-serif design with clear stencil breaks that carve through bowls, terminals, and cross-strokes. The letterforms are broad and firmly built, with strong vertical emphasis, compact counters, and squared, bracketed serifs that read well at display sizes. Stencil bridges are consistently placed and visually integrated, creating rhythmic cutouts that resemble punched metal or painted signage. The lowercase is robust and slightly calligraphic in its slant, with single-storey forms and simplified joins that keep the texture dense and graphic.
Best suited to posters, headlines, and branding where a strong stenciled identity is desirable. It works well for labels, packaging, wayfinding-style graphics, and logo wordmarks that aim for an industrial or vintage-signage look, and it can add character to short bursts of text such as pull quotes or titles.
The overall tone is rugged and utilitarian, evoking stenciled markings on crates, machinery, or field signage. Its bold slant and carved gaps add drama and motion, giving it a poster-forward, adventurous feel rather than a quiet editorial voice.
The font appears designed to merge a classic slab-serif silhouette with functional stencil construction, creating a bold display face that feels both traditional and hard-wearing. The consistent bridges and assertive slant suggest an intention to communicate motion, toughness, and an engineered, reproducible marking aesthetic.
In running text, the repeating stencil apertures create a distinctive pattern that becomes part of the texture, especially in rounded letters and numerals. The design favors impact over subtlety; tight internal spaces and the breaks’ geometry make it most convincing when allowed to stay large and crisp.