I remember when I was at school, there was still the Great Mighty Soviet Union and stencil rulers were very popular among students. We signed notebooks with stencil letters, composed texts that seemed interesting to us, and tried to realize our children's creative ideas. Time passed, all this became useless to anyone, and with the advent graphic editors, such as Photoshop, it has become easier to discover and develop your talents. I wouldn't say that Cyrillic stencil font is now in trend, but there is still a small demand for it. For example, stencil font according to GOST 14192-96. This is an interstate standard for cargo labeling. It is also present in my collection. not to mention that it is ideal for retro stylization of works both in Word, Coreldraw and Photoshop, but it is also used where the use of any other font is unacceptable.
Stencil font Russian and English
Not all stencil fonts are universal. That is, you can write with them both in Russian and English. But I chose the 8 most outstanding, in my opinion. One of them is the most popular Trafaret Kit font. This is what they look like:
A stencil is a special device that is used to apply identical letters and numbers to a large number of surfaces. The stencil can be a simple sheet made of paper, film or other material convenient for cutting, in which through holes of the desired shape are cut. The dye passes through these holes and makes up the overall picture.
The simplest stencil could previously be bought at any stationery store. It was intended for creating inscriptions or simply letters and numbers in a certain font. Now, the easiest way is to make your own stencil by printing it on a printer and cutting out the necessary holes. In this article we will look at the process of creating a stencil using Microsoft Word.
As you may have guessed, in our example the material for the stencil will be plain paper. The material can also be film or cardboard, if your printer can work with such material.
First, you will need to choose a font for the stencil. Basically, you can use any font for your stencil. However, keep in mind that in this case, when cutting out the stencil, you will need to think about the structure itself, which should include the jumpers. It is advisable to do this for letters that have closed contours. Letters such as O, A, D, etc. must be made with bridges, otherwise their internal parts will be filled with a solid color. Sometimes this is not critical, but for the overall picture, it is advisable to do it with internal voids.
Here, for example, is one of the fonts whose Latin letters do not have closed contours. Font name "Bauhaus 93". But in the example I will not use this font. I would like to remember what the old Soviet stencils looked like. Finding a font for such a stencil on the Internet is not difficult. For those who don’t want to strain themselves once again, here is the download link. The font itself is called "Stencil Kit Transparent". Apparently the creator of this font himself comes from the CIS or Russia. A pleasant bonus will be the presence in this font of both Latin and Cyrillic alphabet.
Now you need to install this font in your operating system. Before doing this, it is advisable to close the Word window so that the font can integrate normally during installation. Open the archive and extract this file font. Next, open this file double click on it. And click the "Install" or "Install" button:
This font is now installed on your system. Open Word and write the desired phrase or the entire alphabet for the stencil. Change the font to the previously installed one. Edit the page orientation and font size if necessary. The page orientation can be changed on the "Page Layout" → "Orientation" tab. After completing all operations, your stencil is ready.
The question is how to make a stencil in Microsoft program Word is of interest to many users. The problem is that finding a sane answer to it on the Internet is not so easy. If you are interested in this topic, you have come to the right place, but first, let's figure out what a stencil is.
A stencil is a “perforated plate,” at least that is the meaning of the word exactly translated from Italian. We will briefly talk about how to make such a “plate” in the second half of this article, and immediately below we will share with you how to create the basis for a traditional stencil in Word.
If you are ready to get seriously confused, using your imagination at the same time, you can quite easily use any font presented in the standard set of the program to create a stencil. The main thing, when it is printed on paper, is to make jumpers - places that will not be cut out in the letters limited by the outline.
Actually, if you are ready to sweat so much over the stencil, it is not clear why you need our instructions, since you have all the MS Word fonts at your disposal. Choose the one you like, write a word or type the alphabet and print it on a printer, and then cut them along the contour, not forgetting the jumpers.
If you are not ready to spend so much effort, time and energy and a classic-looking stencil suits you quite well, our task is to find, download and install that same classic stencil font. We are ready to save you from a grueling search - we found everything ourselves.
The Trafaret Kit Transparent font completely imitates the good old Soviet TS-1 stencils with one pleasant bonus - in addition to the Russian language, it also contains English, as well as a number of other characters not present in the original. You can download it from the author's website.
Setting the font
In order for the font you downloaded to appear in Word, you must first install it on the system. Actually, after this it will automatically appear in the program. You can learn how to do this from our article.
Creating a stencil base
Select Trafaret Kit Transparent from the list of fonts available in Word and create the desired inscription in it. If you need an alphabet stencil, write the alphabet on the document page. Other symbols can be added as needed.
Standard portrait orientation A sheet of paper in Word is not the most suitable solution for creating a stencil. On landscape page it will look more familiar. Our instructions will help you change the position of the page.
Now the text needs to be formatted. Set the appropriate size, select the appropriate position on the page, and provide sufficient padding and spacing, both between letters and between words. Our instructions will help you do all this.
Perhaps the standard A4 sheet format will not be enough for you. If you want to change it to a larger one (A3, for example), our article will help you do this.
Note: When changing the sheet format, do not forget to change the font size and related parameters accordingly. No less important in this case are the capabilities of the printer on which the stencil will be printed - support for the selected paper format is required.
Stencil printing
Having written the alphabet or inscription and formatted this text, you can safely proceed to printing the document. If you don't know how to do this yet, be sure to read our instructions.
Creating a stencil
As you understand, there is practically no sense in a stencil printed on a regular piece of paper. It can hardly be used more than once. That is why the printed page with the base for the stencil needs to be “strengthened”. To do this you will need the following:
- Cardboard or polymer film;
- carbon copy;
- Scissors;
- Shoemaker or stationery knife;
- Pen or pencil;
- Board;
- Laminator (optional).
The printed text must be transferred to cardboard or plastic. In the case of transferring to cardboard, ordinary carbon paper (copy paper) will help to do this. You simply need to place the page with the stencil on the cardboard, placing carbon paper between them, and then trace the outline of the letters with a pencil or pen. If you don't have carbon paper, you can press the outlines of the letters with a pen. The same can be done with transparent plastic.
And yet, with transparent plastic it is more convenient, and it would simply be more correct to do it a little differently. Place a sheet of plastic on top of the stencil page and trace the outline of the letters with a pen.
After the stencil base created in Word is transferred to cardboard or plastic, all that remains is to cut out the empty spaces using scissors or a knife. The main thing is to do it strictly along the line. It is not difficult to move the knife along the edge of the letter, but the scissors must initially be “driven” into the place that will be cut, but not into the edge itself. It is better to cut plastic with a sharp knife, after placing it on a strong board.
If you have a laminator on hand, the printed sheet of paper with the stencil base can be laminated. Having done this, cut out the letters along the outline with a stationery knife or scissors.
When creating a stencil in Word, especially if it is an alphabet, try to make the distance between the letters (on all sides) no less than their width and height. If this is not critical for the presentation of the text, the distance can be made a little larger.
If to create a stencil you did not use the Trafaret Kit Transparent font we suggested, but any other (not stencil) presented in the standard Word set, let us remind you once again, do not forget about the jumpers in the letters. For letters whose outline is limited by internal space (an obvious example is the letters “O” and “B”, the number “8”), there must be at least two such jumpers.
That's all, now you know not only how to make a base for a stencil in Word, but also how to make a full-fledged, dense stencil with your own hands.
The question of how to make a stencil in Microsoft Word interests many users. The problem is that finding a sane answer to it on the Internet is not so easy. If you are interested in this topic, you have come to the right place, but first, let's figure out what a stencil is.
A stencil is a “perforated plate,” at least that’s the meaning of the word exactly translated from Italian. We will briefly talk about how to make such a “plate” in the second half of this article, and immediately below we will share with you how to create the basis for a traditional stencil in Word.
If you are ready to get seriously confused, using your imagination at the same time, you can quite easily use any font presented in the standard set of the program to create a stencil. The main thing, when it is printed on paper, is to make jumpers - places that will not be cut out in the letters limited by the outline.
Actually, if you are ready to sweat so much over the stencil, it is not clear why you need our instructions, since you have all the MS Word fonts at your disposal. Choose the one you like, write a word or type the alphabet and print it on a printer, and then cut them along the contour, not forgetting the jumpers.
If you are not ready to spend so much effort, time and energy and a classic-looking stencil suits you perfectly, our task is to find, download and install that same classic stencil font. We are ready to save you from a grueling search - we found everything ourselves.
The Trafaret Kit Transparent font completely imitates the good old Soviet TS-1 stencils with one pleasant bonus - in addition to the Russian language, it also contains English, as well as a number of other characters not present in the original. You can download it from the author's website.
Setting the font
In order for the font you downloaded to appear in Word, you must first install it on the system. Actually, after this it will automatically appear in the program. You can learn how to do this from our article.
Creating a stencil base
Select Trafaret Kit Transparent from the list of fonts available in Word and create the desired inscription in it. If you need an alphabet stencil, write the alphabet on the document page. Other symbols can be added as needed.
The standard portrait orientation of a sheet in Word is not the most suitable solution for creating a stencil. It will look more familiar on a landscape page. Our instructions will help you change the position of the page.
Now the text needs to be formatted. Set the appropriate size, select the appropriate position on the page, and provide sufficient padding and spacing, both between letters and between words. Our instructions will help you do all this.
Perhaps the standard A4 sheet format will not be enough for you. If you want to change it to a larger one (A3, for example), our article will help you do this.
Note: When changing the sheet format, do not forget to change the font size and related parameters accordingly. No less important in this case are the capabilities of the printer on which the stencil will be printed - support for the selected paper format is required.
Stencil printing
Having written the alphabet or inscription and formatted this text, you can safely proceed to printing the document. If you don't know how to do this yet, be sure to read our instructions.
Creating a stencil
As you understand, there is practically no sense in a stencil printed on a regular piece of paper. It can hardly be used more than once. That is why the printed page with the base for the stencil needs to be “strengthened”. To do this you will need the following:
- Cardboard or polymer film;
- carbon copy;
- Scissors;
- Shoemaker or stationery knife;
- Pen or pencil;
- Board;
- Laminator (optional).
The printed text must be transferred to cardboard or plastic. In the case of transferring to cardboard, ordinary carbon paper (copy paper) will help to do this. You simply need to place the page with the stencil on the cardboard, placing carbon paper between them, and then trace the outline of the letters with a pencil or pen. If you don't have carbon paper, you can press the outlines of the letters with a pen. The same can be done with transparent plastic.
And yet, with transparent plastic it is more convenient, and it would simply be more correct to do it a little differently. Place a sheet of plastic on top of the stencil page and trace the outline of the letters with a pen.
After the stencil base created in Word is transferred to cardboard or plastic, all that remains is to cut out the empty spaces using scissors or a knife. The main thing is to do it strictly along the line. It is not difficult to move the knife along the edge of the letter, but the scissors must initially be “driven” into the place that will be cut, but not into the edge itself. It is better to cut plastic with a sharp knife, after placing it on a strong board.
If you have a laminator on hand, the printed sheet of paper with the stencil base can be laminated. Having done this, cut out the letters along the outline with a stationery knife or scissors.
When creating a stencil in Word, especially if it is an alphabet, try to make the distance between the letters (on all sides) no less than their width and height. If this is not critical for the presentation of the text, the distance can be made a little larger.
If to create a stencil you did not use the Trafaret Kit Transparent font we suggested, but any other (not stencil) presented in the standard Word set, let us remind you once again, do not forget about the jumpers in the letters. For letters whose outline is limited by internal space (an obvious example is the letters “O” and “B”, the number “8”), there must be at least two such jumpers.
That's all, now you know not only how to make a base for a stencil in Word, but also how to make a full-fledged, dense stencil with your own hands.
Hello readers of the SubliMaster website! Today I will teach you how to make a stencil portrait from a photograph or picture. A similar portrait can be used for graffiti. I prefer to cut them out of thermal film in a plotter and apply them to a T-shirt.
If you thoroughly master this type of stencil making and learn how to achieve good similarity, you can diversify the range of your products by offering to apply stencil (outline) images to T-shirts.
They have their own zest and originality!
As usual, I will use two programs in my work - Photoshop and CorelDraw.
Finding a frame from the program is not difficult. Moreover, you can take the image directly from the video.
Load the image into Photoshop. First you need to work with the image - remove all unnecessary things.
1. Crop the image to the size you need. Activate the "Rectangular Marquee" tool, select an area of the photo of the size you need and click "Image - Crop".
2. Now you need to remove the background. We don't need anything other than the Bearded Man himself. This can be done with a regular eraser, carefully erasing all excess.
4. You can also see that in this frame the Bearded Man’s hat is cropped. You'll have to finish drawing it yourself. Increase the vertical size of the canvas by going to "Image - Canvas Size". Then, again using the “Stamp” and “Eraser”, finish drawing the hat.
This is what you should get as a result:
It would be desirable for the photo quality to be better. Although even with such a fuzzy image you can achieve an acceptable result.
Let's move on to the most interesting part. Go to the menu "Filter - Sketch - Notepaper...".
On the left side of the window you will see your photo in white and gray. This is already a stencil.
On the right side, set the “Grain” and “Relief” sliders to 0, and use the top “Tone Balance” to edit the image detail. I set the value to 19.
After all the settings, click "Yes".
Now go to the menu "Image - Correction - Highlights/Shadows..."
Set these parameters and click OK.
Our stencil is ready.
As you can imagine, this is a raster image that can be printed on paper and carefully cut out for graffiti. But you, like me, are probably interested in a vector stencil. Only a vector can be sent for cutting in a plotter.
To do this, I will save the stencil photo I received and open it in CorelDraw. Why in Corel I will go to the "File - Import" menu.
Tracing not only converted the raster image into a vector one, but also smoothed out the irregularities and angularities inherent in the stencil from Photoshop.
Now this image can be cut into a plotter and transferred to a T-shirt. Don't forget that after quick tracing, under the vector there is also a raster source. Remove it by moving the vector to the side.
Of course, you guessed that instead of "Quick tracing" you can select the "Detailed logo" or, for example, "Image" tracing modes high quality"Here you can move the settings sliders, increase or decrease detail, adjust anti-aliasing and get a better image as a result.
You can do without Photoshop altogether by immediately importing the color and cropped image into CorelDraw. Then you need to go to the menu " Raster images- Mode - Black and white."
Then trace the resulting image into a vector, as described above.
But personally, I prefer the method using Photoshop at the first stage. The image turns out more “alive” and similar.
This concludes the lesson. I hope you will easily get the hang of it and be able to make high-quality stencil portraits from absolutely any photograph.
I remember when I was at school, there was still the Great Mighty Soviet Union and stencil rulers were very popular among students. We signed notebooks with stencil letters, composed texts that seemed interesting to us, and tried to realize our children's creative ideas. Time passed, all this became unnecessary to anyone, and with the advent of graphic editors, such as Photoshop, it became easier to reveal and develop your talents. I wouldn't say that Cyrillic stencil font is now in trend, but there is still a small demand for it. For example, stencil font according to GOST 14192-96. This is an interstate standard for cargo labeling. It is also present in my collection. not to mention that it is ideal for retro stylization of works both in Word, Coreldraw and Photoshop, but it is also used where the use of any other font is unacceptable.
Stencil font Russian and English
Not all stencil fonts are universal. That is, you can write with them both in Russian and English. But I chose the 8 most outstanding, in my opinion. One of them is the most popular Trafaret Kit font. This is what they look like:
