Kanat Latin Font

In 2024, the Arabic type designer Lara Captan challenged Maria Montes to create a Latin companion for her existing Arabic display font called Kanat — the Turkish word for “wing.” Captan’s beautiful typeface is a detached stencil design, originally created for letterpress, which carries architectural playfulness and delivers a warm kind of boldness to the reader.

Based on the description above— and challenged by the question: How can I create a Latin companion for an Arabic font I cannot read or write? — Montes spent many hours observing and analysing Kanat Arabic, its personality and DNA, followed by many more hours of consulting with Lara Captan. The result is a Latin interpretation that carries a bold attitude and playful spirit.

Kanat Latin is best used at 48pt and above. It’s designed to highlight words with flair, and finds its sweet spot in architectural, food, music, fashion, and packaging contexts.

KANAT LATIN LANGUAGE SUPPORT

Kanat Latin has a bold attitude and playful spirit. It loves tomatoes, bananas and avocados too! The font supports 269 languages and covers Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin-2 Central European and Latin Plus.

Following its Arabic companion called Kanat Solid by Lara Captan, it contains some stencil characters including: g, j, &, $, €, £, ¥, ¢, ƒ, amongst others.

Designed by Maria Montes and distributed by Type-Ø-Tones, Ama Type Foundry, My Fonts and myself. Come and play with us!

STANDARD DESKTOP LICENSE

1 - 5 Users
After checking out, you will receive a manual email from me with a downloadable link. Once you click on the link, you will unpack the following files:

FILE FORMATS

— TTF (TrueType) Font Files
— OTF (Open Type File) Font files
— Kanat Latin Type Specimen (PDF)
— EULA

OTHER FILE FORMATS

Web fonts (WOFF, WOFF2), apps, broadcasting, products and server licenses are available to purchase from the following distributors.

Type-Ø-Tones:
https://type-o-tones.com/fonts/kanat-latin

By purchasing a license for this font, you agree to the EULA. Email me and I'll send it to you straight away: [email protected].

All prices are in United State Dollars (USD).