Origin of stencil fonts.

phillipcasparjames
28.Apr.2008 8.09pm
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Hi there,
I am interested to know what the original font was that the fonts ’Stencil STD’ and ’Army’ were created from.
Cheers.



Eben Sorkin
28.Apr.2008 9.29pm
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You should post images of them if you want an answer. Also, your title isn’t accurately describing your question. Please fix this.


beejay
28.Apr.2008 9.59pm
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guessing that ’Army’ and Stencil STD’ are the same font that also goes by ’Stencil’

from the Adobe site: Two typefaces called Stencil were released in 1937 within a month of each other; this one was designed by Gerry Powell for American Type Founders. The characters are designed to emulate the look of bold, cut-out stencil letters. Use this typeface to command attention on signage, and for special effects.


James Arboghast
28.Apr.2008 10.24pm
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@Eben: “You should post images of them if you want an answer. Also, your title isn’t accurately describing your question. Please fix this.”

Glad to see you’re on the job. These things need to be addressed, but can you word it with a bit more compassion? I’d try something like this: “Hi Phil, welcome to typophile. If you could post a sample or two of the fonts you’re interested in that will help us solve the mystery. Also if you can refactor your thread title to make it more descriptive you’ll get more responses. Thanks!”

Something like that. How are things going anyway Eben?

j a m e s


Alessandro Segalini
28.Apr.2008 10.37pm
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I’d say “durability” is a keyword when conjecturing about stencil typefaces.


Eben Sorkin
28.Apr.2008 10.50pm
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Glad to see *you’re* on the job James. :-)


Stephen Coles
28.Apr.2008 11.26pm
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Keep in mind that “STD” is simply an (unfortunate) abbreviation for “OpenType Standard” and it typically means an OpenType font without added or advanced features, though this definition varies by foundry.


beejay
29.Apr.2008 1.44am
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fyi, here’s a bit from American Type Design and Designers by David Consuegra.

also:

Stencil

Designed originally as a derivated version of Clarendon. Very legible, Stencil is usually used in the industrial, military and building construction field.

from here


Alessandro Segalini
29.Apr.2008 2.14am
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Thanks for that, Brian.
I had some laugh with this : http://typophile.com/node/39696