Stencil Typeface for Schrift Foundry

A lifebuoy found in Rostock unlocked a type family

Bering Stencil traces its origin to a lifebuoy stencilled—presumably in the late 1960s—near the Swedish village of Skärhamn, and later discovered by the designers in Rostock, Germany. Schrift Foundry built the typeface on a multi-layered modular grid, using its geometric structure to extend proportions and weights across the family. The design retains a strict, analytical character consistent with stencilling as a functional lettering tool. The family supports more than 380 languages.

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