Kanun Stencil

A couple of years ago, we published Kanun, a cold and rational signage typeface and counterpart to Typotheque's November. It was followed by Teshrin, the warmer rounded sibling of Kanun and counterpart to October. The third family of the type system is Kanun Stencil, a playful layered typeface with an industrial flair, suitable for signage and short paragraphs. Kanun Stencil is inspired by industrial signage and mechanical stencilling. However, while the gaps are generally systematically positioned on the central vertical and horizontal axis, they also largely follow the stroke order and the direction of Arabic writing, paradoxically to its industrial nature, thus creating a human and machine amalgam.