Stenciled letters are not new, but Marlene Stencil is unlike any other display face. Though it consists of letters whose strokes, curves, and branches have been strategically excised to correspond with industrial letters, its 18th century features and whirling swashes more than make up for their absence. Partly inspired by the engraved penmanship of the Englishman George Bickham, the resplendent Marlene Stencil is a contemporary display face in every sense of the word; the logical capstone of the Marlene typeface system.

Marlene Stencil boasts a quintet of alternate swashes per glyph; it includes ligatures, indices, and international currencies. The swashes are available in Titling Alternates or Stylistic Sets and can be tested online with the PDF Tester.

Marlene Stencil supports all Latin based European languages: Afrikaans, Azeri (Latin), Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Friulian, German, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Gaelic, Italian, Kurdish (Latin), Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxemburgish, Malay, Maltese, Māori, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romani, Romanian, Sámi (Inari, Lule, Nrthern, Southern), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovene, Sorbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh.

Icograda Excellence Award

Best of a decade. Letter.2 2011

Type Design Competition. Marlene among the winners. Type design competition Letter.2 is organized by the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI).