Thai Fonts - Some Useful Information

[RDN]

This pinned thread was inspired by this thread: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=46065

The following useful links have been extracted from that and other threads:

http://www.thaiphrasebook.com/books/040.php - free Thai fonts

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.wordi...hai_preface.htm - Richard Wordingham's web page entitled "How do Thais Tell Letters Apart?" and giving links to:

Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Bangkok: http://seasrc.th.net/index.html?content=ht...th.net/main.htm

The paper "How do Thais Tell Letters Apart?" written by Doug Cooper of the above center http://seasrc.th.net/paper/tellthai.zip - post script format

Richard Wordingham's PDF version of the same paper - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.wordi...ai/tellthai.zip

A link to a thread in this forum - http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=29663

If you have any useful links about fonts, please add a post to this thread and I'll edit this first post to include them.

[Oswulf]

There's a small collection of Thai fonts at OpenTLE, including JS Wansika, which is an italic font with long flourishes, and PS Pimdeed, which is a "dirty typewriter" font.

linux.thai.net has a few different ones, including Purisa, which is a handwritten style font. Despite the site's name, these fonts work with Microsoft Windows.

Worthy of special mention is David McCreedy's Gallery of Unicode Fonts which has two pages of image samples of Thai fonts as graphics, so you can see what the font looks like before installing it, as well as links to from where you can download the font concerned.

[SawWow]

(TIS-620) Thai Fonts four sets

(Norasi, Garuda, Kinnari, Loma)

"These fonts was developed according to requirements of brain storm meeting for standard Thai font development. They can work with Linux, Mac OS X, and MS-Windows operating system."

http://www.links.nectec.or.th/download.php (you will need to unpack the tar.gz files (google for winrar))

Some Thai Unicode fonts can be found here:

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_windows.html#thai

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A useful console application to convert from one charset to another can be found here.

Altair Communications Charset Convertor (Windows, .net 1.1, Includes vb.net source)

http://software.altaircom.net/software/chacon.aspx

A sample command line to convert a text file from TIS-620 (windows-874) to utf-8:

chacon.exe utf-8 input.txt windows-874 output.txt

With this conversion you can then open the file and use a unicode font (Tahoma) , not that that is a good thing.

But, it is useful at times.

[Senia]

thanks guys

can I use these fonts in logo creator? and other similar software?

[bmore99]

http://www.f0nt.com a very big collection of Thai fonts

use http://www.f0nt.com/page/61/ if you don't want to go page by page, but jump to e.g. page 61

[bangkokcitylimits]

http://www.f0nt.com a very big collection of Thai fonts

use http://www.f0nt.com/page/61/ if you don't want to go page by page, but jump to e.g. page 61

That's a fantastic source, use that site a lot if I need to do Thai text designs

[Genericnic]

RDN

Thanks for the link to the Cooper paper on how Thai's tell letter's apart. Finding the difference that makes the difference can make reading a more unified process.

David

opps ... didn't notice the OP was no longer with us.

Edited January 24, 2011 by Genericnic