Typeface Design for Architectural Drafting-Inspired Lettering
Hand-traced stencil irregularity encoded as a typeface
Plotter Hand is a subfamily within Nikola Djurek's Plotter super family at Typotheque, released in 2017. It captures the irregular letterforms produced by manually tracing architectural drafting stencils, distinguishing it from other members of the broader Plotter system. The typeface includes two Stylistic Sets providing alternate forms of 'a' and 'I', though its OpenType feature set is intentionally limited compared to other Typotheque releases.
Set in Plotter Hand
Insights
- Plotter Hand sits apart from the main Plotter subfamily structure—it is not offered in Basic, Monospaced, Stencil, or Display variants, making it a standalone within the 47-font suite.
- Its irregular shapes are a direct consequence of manual stencil use, not stylistic distortion applied after the fact.
- Igino Marini is credited as a contributor alongside designer Djurek on the Latin encoding.
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