Charmonman

Try Charmonman

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Charmonman Regular
• Bold 700Charmonman Bold

About Charmonman

Charmonman is a script typeface for Thai and Latin drawn in the manner of pen calligraphy. The Latin letters lean to the right, with a small x-height set against very tall ascenders and long looping descenders: f, g, j and y drop well below the baseline, and the z in the specimen ends in a long horizontal flourish. Capitals carry entry swashes, and several lowercase letters link to their neighbours. Strokes stay fairly even in thickness, closer to a rounded pen than to a pointed nib. The family has two styles, Regular and Bold, each with 781 glyphs. Cadson Demak is credited as the designer, and the font's name table names Ekaluck Peanpanawate. Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets sit alongside the Thai.

Where Charmonman works

Thai and English invitations

Both scripts are drawn in one calligraphic hand, so names and headings can appear in Thai and Latin on the same card.

Names on certificates and place cards

Swashed capitals and the long tails of g and y make a single name the focal point of the line.

Menu and packaging titles

The Bold style holds its thin connecting strokes when a title is reversed out of a colour or printed on textured stock.

Short quotations

A phrase of a few words shows off the tall ascenders; Regular keeps the lighter, more written look.

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 Charmonman

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

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

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

Things to know

Long extenders need room

Ascenders and descenders reach far above and below the small lowercase bodies, so lines of Charmonman need generous line spacing to avoid touching.

Two weights, no separate italic

Regular and Bold are the only styles. The design is already slanted, and no upright or italic variant exists.

Thai is part of the font

The Thai script is built into both styles; it is not a Latin script font with fallback Thai.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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