Is there any Thai handwriting font out there that is actually "correct"? The ones I've looked at so far are simply distortions of regular fonts.  For example, ข is written as a full width character, whilst it should be much narrower.

 

In an ideal world I'd like to find a "correct", dotted-line Thai handwriting font, but I suspect that's hoping for too much.

Did you try searching the fonts at http://www.f0nt.com/ ?
eg
http://www.f0nt.com/release/bangnumpueng/
http://www.f0nt.com/release/wr-tish-kid2/
etc

Thanks for that.  Unfortunately, not quite what I'm looking for.  I do, though, think I should have explained what I want to achieve better.

 

I want to create some worksheets with Thai letters/words to trace to help people learn to write Thai.  The font I need needs to be neat and tidy handwriting (not scrawled), and to reflect the way that Thai people are actually taught to write their characters (e.g. narrow khor khwai).  Ideally it would be dotted, though I can use pale grey if I can't find a dotted font.

 

Incidentally, I'm aware of the "Dot 3" font but it works very poorly for me and some of the characters are in the wrong positions in the character table.

 

Layiji is also dotted and close, but the proportions of some of the letters are wrong for genuine handwriting.

 

You could go to DK books store and have a look at the dotted-line Thai handwriting font exercise books there.They used to have a good collection of them that you maybe able to sort through and find what you are looking for. That is where I got mine from, albeit going back quite a few years now.

Maybe this is the one you are looking for:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzUmQImdfJaaTDVxQUc2YmZHbFE

On 9/18/2016 at 8:57 AM, ThaiNotes said:

Thanks for that.  Unfortunately, not quite what I'm looking for.  I do, though, think I should have explained what I want to achieve better.

 

I want to create some worksheets with Thai letters/words to trace to help people learn to write Thai.  The font I need needs to be neat and tidy handwriting (not scrawled), and to reflect the way that Thai people are actually taught to write their characters (e.g. narrow khor khwai).  Ideally it would be dotted, though I can use pale grey if I can't find a dotted font.

 

Incidentally, I'm aware of the "Dot 3" font but it works very poorly for me and some of the characters are in the wrong positions in the character table.

 

Layiji is also dotted and close, but the proportions of some of the letters are wrong for genuine handwriting.

 

very interesting!!!!!!!!

On 18 September 2016 at 1:57 PM, ThaiNotes said:

Thanks for that.  Unfortunately, not quite what I'm looking for.  I do, though, think I should have explained what I want to achieve better.

 

I want to create some worksheets with Thai letters/words to trace to help people learn to write Thai.  The font I need needs to be neat and tidy handwriting (not scrawled), and to reflect the way that Thai people are actually taught to write their characters (e.g. narrow khor khwai).  Ideally it would be dotted, though I can use pale grey if I can't find a dotted font.

 

Incidentally, I'm aware of the "Dot 3" font but it works very poorly for me and some of the characters are in the wrong positions in the character table.

 

Layiji is also dotted and close, but the proportions of some of the letters are wrong for genuine handwriting.

 

 

I wonder how some of those letters of the Layiji font can be 'wrong for genuine handwriting'. I'm sure there are many styles of 'genuine handwriting' in Thai as in other languages. The font was created by a Thai fontographer. I'll bet my all he knew what he was doing. 

 

The  way I see it, real Thai handwriting generally do away with the initial loop of each consonant for speed. So I doubt handwritten fonts are suitable for those just starting to write Thai.