Industry: Design

Euclid Stencil

Stencil bridges placed for visual effect, not physical function

Euclid Stencil is a display typeface derived from Euclid Flex Bold, treating the stencil genre as a conceptual exercise rather than a practical cutting template. Bridge placement ignores physical stencil-making conventions, instead appearing wherever the interruption produces a visually interesting result. Gaps run vertically, horizontally, and diagonally at opposing angles, creating fragmentation across most glyphs while selectively reinforcing symmetry in letterforms such as E and H.

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Bridge placement is determined by aesthetic outcome rather than the structural demands of physical stencil production.
Most glyphs use diagonal gaps at opposing angles; a minority use axial gaps to emphasize inherent letterform symmetry.
The typeface is a spin-off of Euclid Flex Bold, making it a stencil adaptation of an existing geometric family.
Typeface design is credited to Emmanuel Rey; font engineering to Christoph Koeberlin, with art direction by Swiss Typefaces.