Athiti

Try Athiti

Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Athiti ExtraLight
• Light 300Athiti Light
• Regular 400Athiti Regular
• Medium 500Athiti Medium
• SemiBold 600Athiti SemiBold
• Bold 700Athiti Bold

About Athiti

Athiti is a sans serif family that sets Latin and Thai in one informal voice; the name means the Sun in Thai. The Latin, as the specimen shows, is slightly narrow, with open shapes and stroke endings cut at an angle like the trace of a pen. The official notes tie this to humanist calligraphy: rounded outer curves meet more angular inner counters. The Thai is loopless, a simplified informal style, and the notes warn that several Thai letters resemble one another, which matters in very short texts. Six static weights run from ExtraLight 200 to Bold 700; there are no italics and no variable file. The 764 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese and the Thai script. Cadson Demak leads the project, and the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Athiti works

Thai and Latin in one layout

Both scripts were drawn together, so a page that mixes Thai script with English keeps one stroke weight and one tone.

Educational material

The official notes single out educational work, where formal and informal content sit side by side.

Headlines in SemiBold and Bold

The two heaviest weights carry titles, with ExtraLight and Light available for large, airy display lines.

Body text on screens

Regular and Medium with their open shapes set paragraphs; the six-step range leaves room for captions and subheads.

Vietnamese-language pages

The Vietnamese subset is included, so the stacked accents of Vietnamese are covered in every weight.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Thai. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, thai, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Athiti

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Athiti on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Athiti";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Athiti-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Athiti";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Athiti-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Athiti";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Athiti-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Athiti";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Athiti-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 2 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Athiti", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Athiti with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Athiti:wght@200;300;400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

Athiti has six upright weights and no italic styles.

Loopless Thai

The Thai letters use the simplified loopless style, not the traditional looped forms used for formal text.

Similar Thai letterforms

According to the official notes, some groups of Thai letters look alike in this design, which can cause confusion in very short texts.

FAQs

Collections with Athiti

• Fonts that support Thai

  Open-license Thai and Latin families, both traditional looped designs and modern loopless ones, for text, interfaces and headlines.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts