A wide slab serif in the spirit of the wood type on old wanted posters and stagecoach notices. Named after the kind of place those posters got nailed up in.
Caps are 13 bricks tall. Stems are two bricks wide, but every horizontal (serifs, crossbars, the tops and bottoms of bowls) is three, so the letters are heavier across than up and down. That reversed weight is a mild version of what the 19th century French Clarendon faces did, and it's most of the western look.
Serifs are flat slabs four bricks wide, sticking out one brick each side of the stem. Stems on the outside of a letter, plus the middle stems of T, Y and 1, get a small Tuscan spur at half height: two triangles and a square. Without the spurs it looked like a college sports font. Round letters get quarter circle corners outside and 45 degree cuts inside the counters.
All diagonals are 45 degrees. Where a full diagonal would make a letter too wide, part of the stroke stays vertical instead, as in V and 7. M and W are the widest at 16 bricks. The 0 gets a dot in the middle, the 8 is narrower on top than on the bottom, and the R kicks its leg out on a diagonal, so they don't read as O, B and A.
Capitals only, lowercase maps to them. Best big: posters, signs, labels, game titles.
Includes A–Z, 0–9 and . , - : ! ' ? $
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