OpenType features in this family

• casecase35 substitutions()+-<=>@[]{}~¡«¬±·»¿×÷‐‑–—―•‹›()+-<=>@[]{}~¡«¬±·»¿×÷‐‑–—―•‹›Use in sampler
• ccmpGlyph composition2 substitutions · contextualijijUse in sampler
• dnomdnom10 substitutions01234567890123456789Use in sampler
• fracfrac11 substitutions · contextual/0123456789/0123456789Use in sampler
• ligaStandard ligatures9 substitutionsoffice affair -> nextoffice affair -> nextUse in sampler
• numrnumr10 substitutions01234567890123456789Use in sampler
• onumonum10 substitutions01234567890123456789Use in sampler
• sinfsinf10 substitutions01234567890123456789Use in sampler
• ss01Alternate a1 substitutiona banana at a bakera banana at a bakerUse in sampler
• subssubs10 substitutions01234567890123456789Use in sampler
• supssups10 substitutions01234567890123456789Use in sampler
• tnumTabular figures10 substitutions01234567890123456789Use in sampler
• zerozero1 substitution00Use in sampler

Left: feature off. Right: on. Substitutions read from the font's GSUB table.

Known limitations

• Proportions: the width of every weight is set by its counters, so the cap-height to H-width ratio is 5.6:1 in Light, 4.3:1 in Regular, 3.5:1 in Bold and 3.0:1 in Black. Only Light reaches the 5:1 of the brief; Regular is about 4.5:1 on average over the capitals.
• At 24 px the x-height is about 13 px and a lowercase n is about 4 px wide: short lines are readable (Regular and Bold hold up best), paragraphs are not a use case. Light thins out below about 28 px.
• The 14 degree slice is 12 units deep on a Regular stem: it is invisible at text sizes by design and reads clearly from about 100 px up; in Light it is barely there even at 200 px.
• Spacing is computed (area method, a collision floor, and a verification pass over every pair) and checked on proof sheets, not tuned pair by pair; the letter kerning list is a short hand-set table because a face this narrow gives the area method little to measure.
• Italic is drawn (single-storey a, narrowed rounds, slice angles that follow the slant, own spacing) but the diagonal letters v w x y z k are sheared outlines, not redrawn.
• Outline is a utility cut made by intersecting each glyph with a stroke of its own outline (Black skeleton, 15 unit line); accents in it are lighter than the letters and the inner lines can touch in tight joins (A, M, & at small sizes). Do not use below 60 px.
• Vietnamese stacked tone marks are placed by fixed rules (the second mark rides above the first), not tuned per letter; they are legible but tall (cap plus two marks reaches 1045 units).
• Oldstyle figures, superiors, inferiors, numerators and denominators are generated from the lining skeletons (scaled, lighter pen), not redrawn. Oldstyle 3 4 5 7 9 are the weakest.
• Symbols (ampersand, at, copyright, section, pilcrow, currency signs, rupee, euro, arrows) are first drafts and the least refined part of the set.
• No small caps, no Greek or Cyrillic, no variable build.
• Name 'Stanchion' was checked by web search only (no typeface of that name was found; Stilt, Menhir and Plumb were rejected because fonts with those names exist). This is not a trademark or font-database clearance.

The designer's own list, copied unchanged from the font's hand-off manifest.

Coverage by Unicode block

• Basic Latin94 / 94
• Latin-1 Supplement94 / 95
• Latin Extended-A128 / 128
• Latin Extended-B10 / 208
• Spacing Modifier Letters8 / 80
• Combining Diacritical Marks19 / 112
• Latin Extended Additional97 / 256
• General Punctuation34 / 98
• Superscripts and Subscripts17 / 42
• Currency Symbols2 / 33
• Letterlike Symbols1 / 80
• Arrows10 / 112
• Mathematical Operators9 / 256
• Geometric Shapes1 / 96
• Alphabetic Presentation Forms5 / 58