Design Concept

November Stencil is a heavy-duty stencil typeface with playful layering styles. Inspired by industrial signage, November Stencil gives a unique flavour to short texts and also provides surprising possibilities for colour typography and motion graphics. It explores the industrial heritage of typography with the familiar interrupted strokes seen on railway wagons, wooden crates and architectural diagrams.

Chromatic Typography

The Stencil gaps are systematically positioned to break letters into strokes, or sometimes to maximise the aesthetic impact. Each of its nine stencil weights also offers three separate layered styles that open intriguing possibilities for the creative use of colours and animation.

Layering

True to its name, November Stencil has the expected gaps, systematically positioned to break letters into strokes, or sometimes to maximise the aesthetic impact. Each of its nine stencil weights also offers three separate layered styles that open intriguing possibilities for the creative use of colours and animation.

November Type System

It all started with November, a rational, utilitarian typeface inspired by street signs, and it continued with October, a rounded typeface created by the rotary cutters of a CNC router, each available in three logical widths, which offer complete typographic palette for the most demanding designers. November Stencil completes this type system, and is more useful for large text and display use.

International Typography

When the job takes you around the globe, November Stencil is ready to go with you. Supporting not only Latin script, but also Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Hebrew and Arabic, November is ready to get down to business in over 250 languages.

Symbols & Arrows

November is ideally suited for the information signage and wayfinding projects, and includes a collection of transportation and travel-related signs, symbols, icons, and various sets of arrows. Of course, they can be stenciled too.

OpenType features

Like all Typotheque fonts, November includes Small Caps in all styles. Additionally, November Stencil includes a wealth of other advanced OpenType features and Stylistic sets. For more information please see the PDF instructions, or the Features section.

Numerals

All weights of November include ten different kinds of numerals. Proportional Lining figures come as default figures in November. It also, however, includes Old-style figures, Tabular numerals (both lining and OsF), Small Caps numerals, superior, inferior, circled and circled inverted numerals (selectable via OpenType features).

Author

Designed by Peter Biľak and released in 2018. Andy Clymer wrote a number of useful Python scripts that made the process must faster, and assisted with the production. And the whole process would not be possible without Nikola Djurek who oversaw the font production. Irina Smirnova designed the Cyrillic version. Kristyan Sarkis designed the Arabic, and Peter Biľak with Daniel Grumer designed the Hebrew. Arya Purohit designed the original Devanagari, which was updated in 2021. Hitesh Malaviya led the redesign of the Devanagari version, with contributions from Shuchita Grover and Parimal Parmar. The Tamil version was designed by Aadarsh Rajan. Liang Hai provided produced the current versions in each of the languages.