Industry: Design

Stencil Typeface for Architectural Drafting

Curves built from straight lines only

Plotter Liner Stencil is part of Typotheque's Plotter super family, designed by Nikola Djurek and released in 2017. The family draws on the hand-lettering tools of technical drafting—architectural stencils and technical pens—reducing letterforms to their most elemental monolinear components. Plotter Liner specifically restricts curve rendering to straight segments rather than true arcs, distinguishing it from the round-curve Plotter subfamily. Across the broader Plotter suite, 47 fonts are organized into 12 packages covering basic, monospaced, stencil, display, and smart-substitution variants.

Set in Plotter Liner Stencil

Insights

Plotter Liner constrains all curves to straight-segment approximations, a structural rule that differentiates it from the parallel Plotter subfamily using true round curves.
Plotter Wave uses contextual OpenType substitution to cycle letterforms through a continuous range of slant angles—from extreme backslant to extreme forward slant—within a single word.
Upright forms across the family can be mathematically inclined to any angle, including backslants.
Despite the technical concept, OpenType features are intentionally limited; two Stylistic Sets provide alternate forms of 'a' and 'I' as the primary variation mechanism.