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Vtg Stencil DIN

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The Vtg Stencil series of fonts from astype are based on real world stencils. The Vtg Stencil DIN fonts were devel-oped to made the most common stencil type of Germany available in digital type. Of course there are several, slightly different stencil designs from different manufactures in circulation, but all share the typical design of DIN type.

DIN stands for “Deutsche Industrienorm” (German Industry Standard) and the DIN types have a long history. The core design was developed for descriptions of freight cars of Prussian state railways (1906). But the design became more and more popular and in 1936 it was issued as DIN 1451 – a draft template for designing type. It was used for traffic and street signs, house numbers, at the army and many more. Over the years the design changed a bit and was slightly modernized.

Vtg Stencil DIN comes in many styles – Regular, Alt, Fabric, Halftone and Rough. The Alt style features older designs of letter “a” and figures “6” and “9”. Fabric, Halftone and Rough styles have an eroded, weathered look using up to four glyph variations of each letter. For an random effect an glyph rotator is programmed into the fonts opentype-code and applied by typing in opentype-savvy application.

todays German DIN stencils

THE GERMAN STANDARD TYPE


Technisches Hilfswerk

MASCHINENFABRIK

DIN ISO EN 9001:2008

SAFETY GLASSES & HARD HATS REQUIRED

Hellmut Bauer, Inspektor Hafenmeisterei

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OpenType Features

113 → 113

Ş → Ș ¿A → ¿A ąēģø

H2 → H2 H2 → H2

3/8 → 3/8 /8 → /83/ → 3/

Tabular Figures

Localized Forms Case Sensitive Forms Language Support

Superscript Subscript

Fractions DenominatorsNumerators

“… DIN is associated with things such as being accurate, striving for the perfect, and most of all: neutrality”

Albert-Jan PoolI Love Type Magazine, Volume 4


Germany 96Germany 69

Regular vs Alt Font Styles

Regular

Alt


As you can see on the pictures, each stencil manufacturer did an slightly different DIN type design for their products. The differ-ences depend on stencil sizes and year of manufacture too.

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Regular Alt

Rough Alt Rough

Rough Lt Alt Rough Lt

Halftone Alt Halftone

Fabric Alt Fabric

Halftone Lt Alt Halftone Lt

Fabric Lt Alt Fabric Lt

The Eroded Look


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The weathered, eroded font styles Fabric, Rough and Halftone have an build in glyph rotator. Up to four variations are included for all base letters and figures. You have to turn on OpenType feature Contextual Alternatives to activate the glyph rota-tor or you can choose variations manually by Sty-listic Sets. In Adobe InDesign feature Contextual Alternatives is on by default.

The Eroded Look

FABRIC STYLE


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HALFTONE STYLE


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ROUGH STYLE


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