Foundry List
Provided Formats
Macintosh
OpenType PS (.otf)
Windows
OpenType PS (.otf)
legacy formats available upon request
Download Stag specimen (PDF)
About Stag
"Esquire contacted me in the summer of 2005 about drawing a new slab serif for bold, forceful headlines. I showed them a range of slab serifs produced by French and German foundries around 1900?1940, and synthesized elements from several of them (notably Beton, Peignot?s Egyptienne Noir, Georg Trump?s Schadow, and Scarab) into a new face with a very large x-height, extremely short ascenders and descenders, and tight spacing, for a compact, contemporary look. Since it was going to be set in short, large blocks of text, we decided that it was important to make the spaces between the characters as interesting to look at as the space inside the characters, which is why the bracketing is only applied on the outside of the serifs. I couldn?t figure out how to make this work on the Thin without having weird spots of extra weight, so I decided to turn that into one of the defining features of the face, rather than forcing it to be another bland hairline face. This was the only project I?ve ever done where the client kept pushing me to make the face weirder and weirder, which made working with them a lot of fun. In 2008, I added three new weights in order to match the full range of weights offered in Stag's sans serif companion Stag Sans, in the hope of adding some more flexibility to this eccentric family."
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
// Accented titling caps
// Alternate italic versions of: R, a, g, y, and z (with all accents)
// Four numeral sets: Lining Proportional, Lining Tabular, Numerators, and Denominators
// Extended set of prebuilt fractions in 8ths, quarters, thirds, and half
// Common mathematical symbols
// An extended set of ligatures: fb ffb ff fh ffh fi ffi fj ffj fk ffk fl ffl ft fft, f and ff with accented 'i's
// Large quotes: cap-height single and double open and close quotes
// Alternate ampersand, dagger, double dagger, and pilcrow
The designer recommends using the Thin and Black weights in larger display sizes only.
The Dot fonts contain limited glyph sets, and the Bold Dot provides only American and Western European language support.
Note that Stag ships in cross-platform OpenType PS format only.