a little stencil history

"In a just world, a Baltimore elementary school teacher, Ruth Libauer Hormats, and her brother, Robert Libauer, should have been elevated into the type design pantheon. In the 1940s Ruth invented, and Robert marketed, a handy stencil-letter drawing system for the do-it-yourselfer, making ad hoc lettering for signs, posters and displays much easier. Although Ruth did not invent the stencil per se, her Stenso guide sheets on heavy cardboard were state-of-the-art for decades before the computer." (via)

thx g.