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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/stencil_%28typeface%29

stencil is a family of typeface designed by gerry powell, robert hunter middle-ton. consists of only capital letters with rounded edges and thick main strokes, it recreates the stenciled alphabet used on

boxes and crates.

two stencil typefaces were released in 1937 within a month of each other, one was designed for american type founders. that version became known as stencil

bold.

in 1997, alexei chekulaev made a cyrillic version of stencil bold, called stencil cyrillic regular.

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in the type specimen book rookledge’s classic interna-tional typefinder, the entry stencil bold (575) shows the existence of a lowercase letters in the stencil bold font that are unavailable from known commercial

foundries.

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