Saira Stencil
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/saira-stencil2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/saira-stencil/wght.css';3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Saira Stencil Variable", system-ui;
}Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style -->Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* saira-stencil-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Saira Stencil Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/saira-stencil:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
}Background & Story
Saira Stencil is the cut variant of the Saira typeface family. It retains the core structure of its predecessor but is defined by the strategic addition of precise cuts—some logically placed, others deliberately offbeat. This intervention creates a typeface that is both sharp and visually striking, making it an optimal choice for titles, branding, and logotypes where a bold, memorable impression is required. It was designed by Héctor Gatti and developed by the Omnibus-Type Team.
Saira is a contemporary sans serif system, a versatile family of 126 styles (9 different weight variants, in 7 widths, plus matching italics.) It is part of the Press Series, for it is applicable in newspapers, magazines, books and websites. Showing high adaptability, it can be used in headlines and long texts. The original masters were designed by Héctor Gatti. The character sets were later completed by the Omnibus-Type Team.
To contribute, see github.com/Omnibus-Type/Saira.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/saira-stencilDesigned by
Hector Gatti, Omnibus-Type
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License
OFL-1.1