Vtg Stencil DIN 

fonts by Andreas Seidel

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THE GERMAN STANDARD TYPE
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

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Technisches Hilfswerk
Safety Glasses & Hard Hats Required

Maschinenfabrik
Hellmut Bauer, Inspektor Hafenmeisterei
DIN ISO EN 9001:2008
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 Vtg Stencil DIN
Functional Form
& Expressive Design
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj
Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Sſs
Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz ẞß :;!?
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OpenType Features
113 → 113 H2 → H2 H2 → H2
Tabular Figures Superscript Subscript

3/8 → 3/8 3/ → 3/ /8 → /8
Fractions Numerators Denominators

Ş→Ș ¿A → ¿A ąēģø
Localized Forms Case Sensitive Forms Language Support

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“… DIN is associated with
things such as being accurate,
striving for the perfect, and
most of all: neutrality”
I Love Type Magazine, Volume 4 Albert-Jan Pool
Regular vs Alt Font Styles

Germany 96
Regular

Germany 69
Alt

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 Different sources
different Times
— same route
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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The Font Styles
Regular Hardworks 1986 Alt Hardworks 1986
Fabric Hardworks 1986 Alt Fabric Hardworks 1986
Fabric Lt Hardworks 1986 Alt Fabric Lt Hardworks 1986
Halftone Hardworks 1986 Alt Halftone Hardworks 1986
Halftone Lt Hardworks 1986 Alt Halftone Lt Hardworks 1986
Rough Hardworks 1986 Alt Rough Hardworks 1986
Rough Lt Hardworks 1986 Alt Rough Lt Hardworks 1986
The Eroded Look
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-
organic cotton
light resistant
tor or you can choose variations manually by Sty-
listic Sets. In Adobe InDesign feature Contextual
Alternatives is on by default.

screen printing
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Fabric style
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RRRRR AAAAA
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Halftone style
EEEEE KKKKK
RRRRR AAAAA
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Rough style
EEEEE KKKKK
RRRRR AAAAA
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