Designer: Andreas
SeidelThe Vtg Stencil series of typefaces from astype are based upon real world stencils. The Vtg Stencil DIN font styles were established to made the most common stencil kind of Germany readily available in digital type. Obviously there are numerous, somewhat different stencil styles from different makes and times in circulation, but all share the common style of DIN type.
DIN stands for "Deutsche Industrienorm" (German Industry Requirement) and the DIN types have a long history. The core style was established for descriptions of freight cars of Prussian state railways (1906 ). But the style became more and more popular and in 1936 it was released as DIN1451 -a draft template for designing type. It was utilized for traffic and street indications, home numbers, at the army and lots of more. Over the years the design altered a bit and was somewhat modernized.
Vtg Stencil DIN can be found in numerous designs - Regular, Alt, Material, Halftone and Rough. The Alt design features older styles of letter "a" and figures "6" and "9". Fabric, Halftone and Rough styles have actually an eroded, weathered look consuming to four glyph variations of each letter. For an random impact an glyph rotator is set into the typefaces opentypecode and used by typing in opentype-savvy application.
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