Big Shoulders Stencil Display SC
XO Type Co · A condensed, variable stencil display font from the Big Shoulders family, installed as a single TTF file.
Big Shoulders Stencil Display SC is a font you can install on a Mac.
About
Big Shoulders Stencil Display SC is a font in the Big Shoulders superfamily, whose tall, condensed sans-serif forms draw on Chicago’s histories of rail transport, public political action, and dance. This Homebrew cask installs the Display SC variant as one variable TrueType font file; it does not install the wider Big Shoulders family or other Stencil and Inline variants.
- The supplied font file is
BigShouldersStencilDisplaySC[wght]..ttf - Its Display designation identifies this as a display-style variant, rather than the Text variant described in the family documentation.
- It is a font installation, not a standalone application.
Install it with brew install --cask font-big-shoulders-stencil-display-sc. After installation, select the installed font by name in a font-aware application to use it. The cask installs only the named file, so it should not be taken as evidence that other family variants are installed. The font’s presence also does not establish full Unicode coverage or support for any particular ligatures in every application.
Sources: Big Shoulders project · Project README
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- FontVariable font file added to the source distribution.
Install and uninstall
Homebrew installs the font in ~/Library/Fonts, where Font Book can use it.
Install without Homebrew
Download the same file Homebrew uses: github.com/google/fonts/raw/main/ofl/bigshouldersstencildisplaysc/BigShouldersStencilDisplaySC%5Bwght%5D.ttf
$ brew uninstall --cask \font-big-shoulders-stencil-display-scA regular uninstall removes the app and keeps its settings and caches.
Questions
Is Big Shoulders Stencil Display SC safe?
Big Shoulders Stencil Display SC is in Homebrew’s official catalog and has not been disabled. Since September 2026, Homebrew disables apps that fail macOS Gatekeeper checks. The download comes from github.com; Homebrew does not verify a checksum for it. It was installed 1 time through Homebrew in the last 30 days.
How do I completely uninstall Big Shoulders Stencil Display SC on a Mac?
Run brew uninstall --cask font-big-shoulders-stencil-display-sc.