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Kanat Latin

by Maria Montes
Individual Styles from $64.00 USD
The Kanat Latin Font Family was designed by Maria Montes and published by Maria Montes. Kanat Latin contains 1 styles.

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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. The font supports 269 languages and covers Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin-2 Central European and Latin Plus.

Designers: Maria Montes

Publisher: Maria Montes

Foundry: Maria Montes

Design Owner: Maria Montes

MyFonts debut: Jun 10, 2025

Kanat Latin

About Maria Montes

Maria Montes is an independent lettering designer specialised in branding assets, typography and calligraphy education.Montes’ creative practice is set by the principals of never stop learning, sharing knowledge and create emotion through her work. Her multidisciplinary practice expands across brand identity, packaging illustration, custom lettering, editorial, fashion, art and culture. She has been teaching calligraphy independently since 2014. Maria studied a Postgraduate Course in Advanced Typography in Barcelona and a Condensed Program in Typeface Design at Type@Cooper in NYC. In 2018 she released her first display chromatic font family called Green Fairy.

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