Stick No Bills is a stencil variable font developed as the bespoke Libre typeface of Stick No Bills Poster Gallery in Galle, Sri Lanka. The font supports Latin, Sinhala and Tamil languages.

Martyn Hodges developed the first drawings for the typeface for uppercase. In February 2015, Meg Baber, co-founder of Stick No Bills gallery, commissioned Mooniak took up the project in 2015 and is working on further refining and developing a comprehensive font with support for more languages. Stick No Bills family contains six weights from Extra Light to Extra Bold intended for headlines.

The stencil is the solutions for creating a reproducible, replicable lettering. Sinhala stenciled letters are common in Sri Lankan Railway cars and busses. There is no accepted style or universal consensus on the cuts, and that is the beauty of stencil. All of these have different stencil cuts in very different places without an aim to overall make-up harmony. This project is inspired partly by existing Sinhala and Tamil stencil lettering around us. But we built the letters of all three alphabets in thinking about the stencil structure ground up. Therefore, it is a fresh face but a readable face.

This Font is Free For Personal And Commercial Use.

Stick No Bills Sans Serif Font

Free for Personal Use

This fonts are authors' property, and are either shareware, demo versions or public domain. The licence mentioned above the download button is just an indication. Please look at the readme-files in the archives or check the indicated author's website for details, and contact him if in doubt. If no author/licence is indicated that's because we don't have information, that doesn't mean it's free.

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Copyright 2021 The Stick No Bills Project Authors (https://github.com/mooniak/stick-no-bills-font)

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL


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README

Stick No Bills Variable Font
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This download contains Stick No Bills as both a variable font and static fonts.

Stick No Bills is a variable font with this axis:
wght

This means all the styles are contained in a single file:
StickNoBills-VariableFont_wght.ttf

If your app fully supports variable fonts, you can now pick intermediate styles
that aren’t available as static fonts. Not all apps support variable fonts, and
in those cases you can use the static font files for Stick No Bills:
static/StickNoBills-ExtraLight.ttf
static/StickNoBills-Light.ttf
static/StickNoBills-Regular.ttf
static/StickNoBills-Medium.ttf
static/StickNoBills-SemiBold.ttf
static/StickNoBills-Bold.ttf
static/StickNoBills-ExtraBold.ttf

Get started
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1. Install the font files you want to use

2. Use your app's font picker to view the font family and all the
available styles

Learn more about variable fonts
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https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ux/typography/variable-fonts
https://variablefonts.typenetwork.com
https://medium.com/variable-fonts

In desktop apps

https://theblog.adobe.com/can-variable-fonts-illustrator-cc
https://helpx.adobe.com/nz/photoshop/using/fonts.html#variable_fonts

Online

https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Fonts/Variable_Fonts_Guide
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/testdrive/demos/variable-fonts

Installing fonts

MacOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201749
Linux: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+install+a+font+on+gnu%2Blinux
Windows: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/314960/how-to-install-or-remove-a-font-in-windows

Android Apps

https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/android
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/downloadable-fonts

License
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Please read the full license text (OFL.txt) to understand the permissions,
restrictions and requirements for usage, redistribution, and modification.

You can use them in your products & projects – print or digital,
commercial or otherwise.

This isn't legal advice, please consider consulting a lawyer and see the full
license for all details.