MegaMegaTypeType
The Roman type from the first stencil machine, redrawn from a three-quarter inch Bradley cutter.
About
Andrew Jackson Bradley patented the first stencil machine in 1893 and his Roman type carried over to the circular cutters that followed. The letterforms sit between the Clarendon-based US Roman and the plain gothics of later machines, closer to a typewriter face than to a bold serif. Seidel evened the stem widths and kept the original W as an alternate, which makes it usable for period marking around 1900 and the First World War.
Classification
Roman stencil drawn from a three-quarter inch Bradley circular cutter. Lighter and more typewriter-like than the Clarendon-based US Roman, so it reads as a period display face rather than a text serif.
Weights
Regular
Family
RegularMono
Languages
Latin
Tags
stencilamericanromanvintagedisplaymilitarymonospaced