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  • Looking for a ‘nice’ stencil type font – but NOT army style.

    Posted by Future Freak on 19 January 2006 at 09:46

    Does anyone know of any nice stencil fonts they can recommend to use that don’t look like military fonts.

    The type I’m after is one like in the Banksy Wall and Piece book of graffiti in which he has a lot of text in a couple of his designs and it looks nice and scripty and almost hand written, but is a stencil (as that’s his style)

    Basically, I need a font with open/not quite closed a’, e’s, b’s etc.
    Here’s hoping the sign experts on here can point me in the right direction before I spend time butchering an existing font in Corel Draw.

    I have a design (cutout vinyl pressedonto t-shirts) that has lots of text, but I’m loath to do it in a standard font due to the weeding nightmare!

    Future Freak replied 19 years, 11 months ago 5 Members · 12 Replies
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  • Shane Drew

    Member
    19 January 2006 at 09:55

    only thing I can think of is to look here http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=114 … p=50&af=on

  • Andrew Ritchie

    Member
    19 January 2006 at 10:02

    I think theres a font called “Interceptor” or “Stop”. They are modern/ futuristic stencil like fonts similar to the one that Banksy uses. That might give you a starting point.

    Andy 😎

  • Future Freak

    Member
    19 January 2006 at 10:16
    quote Andrew Ritchie:

    I think theres a font called “Interceptor” or “Stop”. They are modern/ futuristic stencil like fonts similar to the one that Banksy uses. That might give you a starting point.

    Andy 😎

    I’m not after the font that he uses for his name, I’m after a more natural ‘flowy’ looking stencil that he has used in a few of his designs. A bit obscure I know. It’s quite a flowery/poetic font but it’s still a stencil.

  • Andrew Ritchie

    Member
    19 January 2006 at 10:23

    😳 sorry…..

    could you please post a sample of the typface then so we have a better idea of what you are looking for?

    Andy 😎

  • Jim Clough

    Member
    19 January 2006 at 10:24

    Have a look at http://www.searchfreefonts.com
    click on ‘S’ at right of screen then pages 50 & 51 have a few for free download.
    Jim

  • Brian Little

    Member
    19 January 2006 at 10:26

    ive got stop ..let me know what you need

  • Future Freak

    Member
    19 January 2006 at 10:31
    quote Andrew Ritchie:

    😳 sorry…..

    could you please post a sample of the typface then so we have a better idea of what you are looking for?

    Cheers to everyone trying to help so far (even with my rubbish descriptions!)
    I’ll try and scan in the image from the book tonight when I go home.

  • Brian Little

    Member
    19 January 2006 at 10:34

    in the meantime ill sed you a sample of stop
    Brian

    Ps i dont think i can do this in this forum ….but ill send it file swap

  • Jim Clough

    Member
    19 January 2006 at 18:33

    Another free font site http://www.webpagepublicity.com There are a number of stencil fonts there.
    Jim

  • Future Freak

    Member
    20 January 2006 at 09:54

    To make things a bit clearer – here’s a scan of the font in question:

  • Shane Drew

    Member
    20 January 2006 at 09:58

    that is Zapf Chancery Medium Italic. (or very close to it)

  • Future Freak

    Member
    20 January 2006 at 11:04
    quote Shane Drew:

    that is Zapf Chancery Medium Italic. (or very close to it)

    Wow – you know your fonts!

    As I posted this – I also queried whatthefont.com and the top 2 results came back as:
    ITC Zapf Chancery Medium and ITC Zapf Chancery Roman 😀

    Although they’re not stencil fonts as such – I feel a font editing session coming on.

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