Industry: Design

Stencil Typeface for Display Typography

Industrial stencil logic extended across twenty scripts

November Stencil is a heavy-duty stencil typeface released by Typotheque in 2018, drawing on the interrupted-stroke aesthetic of railway wagons, wooden crates, and architectural diagrams. Each of its nine weights offers three layered styles designed to support chromatic typography and motion graphics. The family is part of Typotheque's broader November type system and belongs to its Global Font collection, covering twenty writing scripts with contributions from specialist designers worldwide.

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Insights

Stencil gaps are positioned both to structurally break letterforms into strokes and, separately, to maximise aesthetic impact — two distinct placement rationales within the same system.
Each weight carries three independent layered style variants, enabling multicolour registration and animation without additional typefaces.
Script coverage spans Arabic, Armenian, Bangla, Canadian Syllabics, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Odia, Ol Chiki, Tamil, Telugu, and Thai, with Chinese in development.
Design credits are divided by script, with separate specialists responsible for Arabic (Kristyan Sarkis), Devanagari (Arya Purohit, Hitesh Malaviya), Georgian (Akaki Razmadze), Thai (Ekaluck Peanpanawate), and others.