Industry: Design

Oboi

St Petersburg house number plates as typographic source

Stencil-influenced typeface by Vincent Chan and Christian Schwartz, loosely based on house number plate lettering in St Petersburg, Russia. Drawn for Meirion Pritchard for a special issue of Wallpaper*, it includes numerous alternate forms and is now available through the Commercial Type Vault.

Set in Oboi

Insights

The design draws from stencil lettering on Russian house number plates — a vernacular source rather than a formal type tradition.
The family includes numerous alternate forms.