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1917 Stencil

1917 Stencil

by GLC
Individual Styles from $38.00
Complete family of 2 fonts: $45.00
1917 Stencil Font Family was designed by published by GLC. 1917 Stencil contains 2 styles and family package options.

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1917 Stencil Set

2 fonts

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About 1917 Stencil Font Family


We have created this family inspired by the old-fashioned stencil letters like those the French army used during the WWI to write on soldiers' clothes, blankets, signals, ammunition, supplies and so on. This is a Didone-style font. We offer two variants for the same font: monospaced or proportionally spaced. Our Open Type specification allows automatic substitution of letters to avoid repeating the same glyph when a letter is repeated (for example “ee” or “bb”)(Not available with accented characters and a few others like “Q” that are never repeated in common use).

Designers:

Publisher: GLC

Foundry: GLC

Design Owner: GLC

MyFonts debut: Oct 28, 2009

1917 Stencil

About GLC

Gilles Le Corre was born in 1950 in Nantes, France. Painter since the end of 70s, he is also an engraver and calligrapher. He has been learning about medieval art and old books for as long as he can remember. More recently he has made the computer a tool for writing like the quill pen and ink. With it, he aims to make it possible to print books that look just like old ones! Beginning in 2007 he has been trying to reproduce, very exactly, a wide range of historic European typefaces, mainly from medieval and early periods of printing - his favorite period - from 1456 with Gutenberg, up to 1913 with a font inspired by a real old typewriter.

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