Template Gothic is a typeface inspired bu letters drawn with a plastic stencil. Designed by Barry Deck in the 1990s during the time when digital design tools increased in popularity. Template Gothic describes the process that was once mechanical and manual. Barry Deck designed this typeface because of his desire to abandon the perfection of modernists letter-forms. The features of this typeface includes an irregular, tapering strokes, thickened junctions, inconsistent weight and lopsided rhythm combined in making this typeface unique.

This typeface shows Deck’s interest in type that is not perfect. It is a type that reflects the imperfection of the world and the imperfect beings inhabiting in this world. Deck said he “… was inspired to design a face that looked as if it had suffered the distorted ravages of photo-mechanical reproductions.” Also, this typeface embodies a post- modern narrative on the methods of character-generation it supersedes, and can withstand the most casual of designs. Template Gothic released by Emigre Fonts in the 1990s have since became an important milestone in the history of digital fonts.