Charm

Try Charm

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Charm Regular
• Bold 700Charm Bold

About Charm

Charm is a handwriting family for the Thai and Latin scripts. Its Latin letters have the look of a formal italic hand: they slant to the right, stand separately instead of joining, and show the thick and thin strokes a broad nib produces as it changes direction. Capitals begin with small entry flicks, and the descenders of f, g, j and y curl to the left. The official description says the shapes were first written on paper with a flat-tipped pen and notes that the family serves Thai religious texts well. Charm has two weights, Regular and Bold, and no separate italic, since the design is already slanted. Each font holds 798 glyphs across Thai, Latin and Vietnamese. The listing credits Cadson Demak, the name table gives Katatrad Aksorn Co., Ltd. as designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Charm works

Thai religious and ceremonial texts

This is the use the official description singles out for the Thai letters.

Bilingual invitations

Thai and Latin lines come from the same pen, so a two-language card keeps one hand throughout.

Quotations and dedications

Separate, slanted letters with broad-nib contrast read as careful penmanship in a pull quote or a book dedication.

Menu and label headings

Bold 700 holds the thin strokes at smaller sizes on printed labels and menus.

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 Charm

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 Charm 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: "Charm";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Charm-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Charm";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Charm-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Charm", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Charm 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=Charm:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Slanted by design

Both weights lean like an italic. There is no upright version and no separate italic file.

Letters do not join

Charm is calligraphic handwriting with separate letters, not a connected script.

Thai included

The fonts contain the Thai script along with Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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