This set of stencils was created as a response
to a series of lectures by professor Phil Baynes at
Central St. Martins on the history of Typography.

The concept of a stencil is fast reproducibility, which

opposes the idea of hand-drawn letters. Therefore, using the historical references presented during the lectures, and recreating the old forms with a parallel pen, the typeface fidalgo was created. It finds
its own way to make traditional letterforms askew,
the same way that the chosen media (stencils)
does to calligraphy.