Foundry List
Provided Formats
Macintosh
OpenType PS (.otf)
Windows
OpenType PS (.otf)
legacy formats can be made to order
Download Stag Sans specimen (PDF) Stag Sans
mudTyper+Weights
Example+About
Licensing
Christian Schwartz
2007
14 fonts
♥ Village exclusive
| Esquire magazine layout |
About Stag Sans
"Looking back at the process that lead to Stag, I can see that Stag Sans was inevitable. Esquire had a lot of trouble finding a sans to complement Stag and the rest of their type palette. All of the sans serifs they tried had overly long ascenders and descenders, making it difficult to mix the families in a single headline or as emphasis in a block of copy. We combed through every contemporary sans serif we could find, but nothing was quite the right fit - rounded corners were overly friendly; none of the existing geometric sans serifs looked right with Stag; most humanist sans serifs were far too narrow, too calligraphic, or too straightlaced. In the end, the most obvious solution was probably the right one: a sans serif version of Stag. The trickiest part of the design process was finding the right amount of rounding to mimic original slab version, as well as the right amount of bluntness on the terminals, to make it interesting in headlines but not distracting at text sizes. The balance of normal and quirky characteristics leans more to the quirky end in the heavy weights, which are more likely to be used for enormous headlines. The final result is a perfect match for Stag, and also works as a muscular counterpoint to just about any elegant serif face."
Supported languages
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arumanian, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque, romanised Belarusian, Bislama, Breton, Bosnian, romanised Bulgarian, romanised Burmese, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Old English, Middle English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, traditional German, transliterated Greek, Greenlandic, Guarani, Hawai'ian, Hungarian, Ibo, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, romanised Japanese, Kashubian, romanised Kazakh, romanised Korean, Kurdish, romanised Kyrgyz, romanised Laotian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Livonian, romanised Macedonian, Malagasy, Maltese, Maori, Marshallese, Moldavian, romanised Mongolian, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansch, romanised Russian, Inari Saami, North Saami, Lule Saami, Skolt Saami, South Saami, Samoan, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Spanish, Traditional Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, romanised Tajik, romanised Tatar, Tswana, Tongan, Turkish, romanised Turkmen, romanised Ukrainian, Ulithian, Uzbek, Walloon, Welsh, Wolof, Yapese, and many transliterated South Asian languages
Supported ISO codepages
8859-1 Latin 1 (West European)
8859-2 Latin 2 (Central European)
8859-3 Latin 3 (South European)
8859-4 Latin 4 (Baltic)
8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish)
8859-10 Latin 6 (Scandinavian)
8859-13 Latin 7 (Baltic 2)
8859-15 Latin 9
8859-16 Latin 10
Glyphset contents
// Alternate versions of: Q
// Alternate italic versions of: a (with all accents)
// Three numeral sets: Lining Proportional, Numerators, and Denominators
// Extended set of prebuilt fractions in 8ths, quarters, thirds, and half
// Common mathematical symbols
// Basic ligatures: fi ff fl
// Large quotes: cap-height single and double open and close quotes
// Alternate dagger, double dagger, and pilcrow
Note that Stag ships in cross-platform OpenType PS format only.