Vtg Stencil Ideal No.1

Astype Fonts · Andreas Seidel · 2023

sans-serifmachine stencil gothicmono

Vtg Stencil Ideal No.1 specimen from Astype Fonts

The 1 inch Ideal No.1 machine type of the 1920s to 1940s, in a refined Regular, a Mono and a faithful Source.

About

Ideal was the third American stencil machine maker and its No.1 cut 1 inch letters from 1913. This draws on an early machine, before the punches for N, M, S and & were changed. A, B, G, M, Q, N, S, & and the figures 2, 3 and 5 carry the signature shapes.

Classification

Drawn from 1 inch stencils cut by an early Ideal No.1 machine. Plain gothic letterforms with the machine's own bridges left in.

Weights

Regular

Family

RegularMonoSource

Languages

Latin