Sukoon
Fontwerk · Jan 'Yanone' Gerner · 2026
A multi-script typeface by Jan 'Yanone' Gerner grown over ten years from a single letterform drawn during a moment of stillness in a forest cabin.
About
Born from a single letter found rather than designed, Sukoon spans ten weights from Thin to ExtraBlack and covers Latin, Arabic, Greek and Cyrillic scripts. The Arabic integration feels central rather than supplementary, reflecting the word 'sukoon' itself, a term for tranquility and a diacritical mark denoting a vowelless consonant in Arabic script. The result is a typeface with an unusually consistent voice across very different writing systems.
Classification
Sukoon appears to be a humanist sans-serif with broad Latin and Arabic script support, characterised by organic clarity and warmth consistent with humanist design principles.