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Slab warmth meets stencil structure across six weights

Tesla Stencil is a constructed slab serif stencil typeface released by Typotheque in 2015, designed by Nikola Djurek (Latin) and Ilya Ruderman (Cyrillic), with contributions from Igino Marini. It spans six weights with cursive italics, using smooth curvature and modulated contrast to temper the industrial character typical of slab serifs. The family sits within the broader Tesla type system alongside Slab, Mono, and Caps variants.

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Latin and Cyrillic scripts were handled by separate designers—Nikola Djurek and Ilya Ruderman respectively—within a single release.
Each weight includes eight numeral styles: proportional old-style (default), lining, tabular lining, tabular old-style, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted.
Discretionary ligatures generate typographic arrows from ASCII sequences and enclosed numerals from parenthesised digits.
Tesla Stencil is one of four subfamilies (Slab, Stencil, Mono, Caps) designed to function together as a complete typographic system.

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