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A destination cut through a plate.
Also known as: Case marking, Consignment stencil
The stencilled marking on a crate or case giving its destination, consignee and handling requirements.
Gives a case its destination, consignee, weight and handling requirements.
Contexts: Packaging, Public information
The broken letterforms are an artefact of the stencil plate, whose bridges must hold the enclosed parts of letters in place — a typeface shaped entirely by the physics of cutting a hole in metal.
Contexts: Packaging, Public information
Applied to more than one face, because a case in a hold is seen from whichever side it happens to present.
Contexts: Packaging, Public information
Block letters and figures sprayed or brushed through a cut stencil plate onto the case, in a face whose letters are broken by the bridges that hold the plate together.