Fancy Thai Fonts

[Oswulf]

Like most people learning to read Thai, I'm often completely thrown by some of the typefaces used. I've found plenty of free downloadable standard fonts, but have completely drawn a blank with the following types:

(1) the type without loops, where letters are radically simplified (I think of it as "sans serif")

(2) the type based upon Indian-style letters, very angular, and written as if with a broad-nibbed pen (often used for menus in restaurants)

(3) the script type, with big flourishes (often used for restaurant name signs)

Does anyone know where I can download (for free) these types of fonts (for PC)?

[katana]

There are some here. Don't know how fancy they are though.

http://www.thaiphrasebook.com/books/040.php

[Oswulf]

There are some here. Don't know how fancy they are though.

http://www.thaiphrasebook.com/books/040.php

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Unfortunately, these are all "standard" fonts.

An example of a "modern" font is JS Thanaporn.

An "Indian-style" font is JS Chanok. (Some people call this a "craft style" font.)

JS Sirium is a "font with long tails".

So, does anyone knows where I can get similar fonts for free? Thanks.

[Bryan in Isaan]

Like most people learning to read Thai, I'm often completely thrown by some of the typefaces used.  I've found plenty of free downloadable standard fonts, but have completely drawn a blank with the following types:

(1) the type without loops, where letters are radically simplified (I think of it as "sans serif")

(2) the type based upon Indian-style letters, very angular, and written as if with a broad-nibbed pen (often used for menus in restaurants)

(3) the script type, with big flourishes (often used for restaurant name signs)

Does anyone know where I can download (for free) these types of fonts (for PC)?

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Yeah, that's for sure.

If not computer font, how about a link to some charts of cursive or handwriting varieties of font? I presume there must be some standard for handwriting, signpainting, etc... or the Thais wouldn't be able to read them.

Thank you,

Bryan

Edited September 29, 2005 by Bryan in Isaan

[Oswulf]

There's an excellent paper on the subject of Thai fonts by Doug Cooper available at http://seasrc.th.net/paper/tellthai.zip However, the file inside the zip file is in PostScript format, which is a real pain for PC users. However, it includes images of a range of fonts, with sound advice on how to interpret them.

[Richard W]

There's an excellent paper on the subject of Thai fonts by Doug Cooper available at http://seasrc.th.net/paper/tellthai.zip  However, the file inside the zip file is in PostScript format, which is a real pain for PC users.  However, it includes images of a range of fonts, with sound advice on how to interpret them.

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It's also available as PDF.

[Tywais]

Might browse through this listing.

http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/thai.html

[Oswulf]

Thanks to a previous posting (now disappeared - but thanks, anyway) I've managed to track down a script with big flourishes font, JS Wansika. It's available here (opentle.org).

Just the Indian and the sans serif to track down now.

[hajac]

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