I’ve seen stencil fonts before. So what’s special about this one?
Most of the stencil fonts I have seen before have taken a very simple approach as to how to position the bars that keep the stencil physically together. Laying them vertically over the letter causes a huge destruction and a loss in legibility. And many are just stencilfications of existing, mainly sans serif fonts.
    The Pochoir has specifically been designed as a stencil antiqua. It’s letters have the strong writing contrast known from antiqua typefaces and its bars are positioned at the thinnest points of the letter, following the natural contrast axis of the letter and thus keeping destruction down and legibility up. It also has the nice effect that the parts resemble the strokes needed for writing the letter, so it automatically gets a very calligraphic appeal.


Dude, why so many ligatures. Are you crazy?

Keep in mind: this font has been designed to be cut out of cardboard and errrh... sprayed onto walls and stuff. While it is purely an aesthetic advantage for printing fonts to have many ligatures and adds to legibility, it’s actually quite important for the physical integrity of the cardboard stencil, as it will rip apart and become labile where letters collide.


On which operating systems can I use the Pochoir?
It comes as a family of three TrueType-flavoured OpenType fonts, so you can use it on Windows, Mac OS X and all Linuxes. Mac OS 9 is not supported and will never be.


That font reminds a little bit me of Dolly from Underware.
That's right. Please go to Underware's site to learn more about the font familiy that has influenced my stencil font.


I’m convinced. I want to have it.
Then go get it in Yanone’s Typedesign Shop,– or over at myfonts.com.