Thai lettering that looks like English

[digbeth]

I've seen people refer to certain products by a strange name, like the บรีส detergent here

Some people called it USA....

Have you seen case of any other where due to choice of font, Thai words appear English

aast water

[digbeth]

Lay's is nicely done though

But most case where a Thai word try to appear English, it ended up horribly

[Daffy D]

Going the other way - English writing looking like Thai

Available here for free:- http://www.fontpalace.com/font-details/AW+Siam+English+not+Thai/

Download the .TTF file and place in your Fonts folder. Computer - System disk - Windows - Fonts.

Have fun

[JaiMaai]

I usually describe this sign as looking like "OHS" when directing people to the local branches.

[phuketsub]

Going the other way - English writing looking like Thai

Thai not English!.jpg

Available here for free:- http://www.fontpalace.com/font-details/AW+Siam+English+not+Thai/

Download the .TTF file and place in your Fonts folder. Computer - System disk - Windows - Fonts.

Have fun

I downloaded it and hit 'open', but it is a .ttf file that opens in ACDSee Quick view, a program on my computer that I never use.

Is there an easy way to get these fonts going in Notepad or Microsoft Word (.docx)?

I don't want to spend all morning trying to figure it out...

[phuketsub]

Going the other way - English writing looking like Thai

Thai not English!.jpg

Available here for free:- http://www.fontpalace.com/font-details/AW+Siam+English+not+Thai/

Download the .TTF file and place in your Fonts folder. Computer - System disk - Windows - Fonts.

Have fun

Ignore that request. I figured it out. I just had to open in Windows rather than the default ACDSee QuickView. thanks again

[richard_smith237]

I always thought Coke in Thai looked like TAn

[Aforek]

Do you really think they try to imitate Latin ( sorry, not English, these letters are common to many other languages ) letters ? Thai language allows many artistic interpretations, these ones are only some of them

[Rumblecat]

Do you really think they try to imitate Latin ( sorry, not English, these letters are common to many other languages ) letters ? Thai language allows many artistic interpretations, these ones are only some of them

No, I don't think that's what people are saying. They're just pointing out examples when Thai script could be mistaken by the reader for Roman / Latin script- especially for people who grew up speaking the Western language. It's a pretty simple concept.