Fahkwang

Try Fahkwang

Weights and styles

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

About Fahkwang

Fahkwang is a sans serif family for Thai and Latin whose strokes swing clearly between thick and thin, a trait more usual in serif type. In the specimen the Latin letters are wide, with broad round bowls and thin joins where curves meet stems, and the contrast becomes stronger as the weight increases. The official notes trace the idea to the headlines of old Thai newspapers. Six weights run from ExtraLight 200 to Bold 700, each with an italic, which makes 12 styles; the family is not a variable font. Its 775 glyphs cover Thai as well as the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets. Cadson Demak is credited as designer, the font's name table names Suppakit Chalermlarp of Katatrad, and the copyright notice names The Fahkwang Project Authors. Fahkwang is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Fahkwang works

Thai and Latin headlines

The design goes back to Thai newspaper headlines, and both scripts share the same thick-and-thin stroke pattern.

Magazine layouts

ExtraLight for large titles and Medium for decks show the contrast at different strengths within one family.

Hospitality and fashion branding

Wide letters with fine joins give a name on a menu, tag or shopfront a refined line without serifs.

Banners and wide formats

Broad proportions fill a horizontal space with few words, and the italics add a second voice.

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 Fahkwang

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 Fahkwang 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: "Fahkwang";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Fahkwang-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fahkwang";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Fahkwang-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fahkwang";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Fahkwang-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fahkwang";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Fahkwang-ExtraLightItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 8 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Fahkwang 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=Fahkwang:ital,wght@0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Twelve static files

Each weight and each italic is a separate file. Fahkwang is not a variable font.

Wide letters

The Latin is broad, so a line of Fahkwang takes more room than the same words in a narrow sans.

Credits differ by source

The designer field says Cadson Demak, while the name table lists Suppakit Chalermlarp and Katatrad Co., Ltd.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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