I was looking for some plain white canisters with wooden lids, which was surprisingly hard to find. I liked the mild texture on these ones, and although I wasn't crazy about the words on them, I figured I could turn them around and have the words face the wall. It turns out, however, that the word is written twice on each canister (once on the front and once on the back), so I have to carefully arrange them sideways to try to not show the words. 
It's not a perfect system, but I decided to keep them anyway because I didn't want to bother shipping them back. 
Most people looking at this probably like the words though, so I guess just FYI that they are on both sides.