Krub

Try Krub

Weights and styles

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

About Krub

Krub is a sans serif text family for the Thai and Latin scripts. Its Thai keeps the traditional looped letterforms, in their modern structure, and blends in elements borrowed from the era of metal type. The Latin is a plain, open sans with even strokes and wide, round bowls; the lowercase a ends in a small curved foot, which softens an otherwise sober design. Krub is supplied as 12 static files: six weights from ExtraLight 200 to Bold 700, each with an italic. It is not a variable font. The fonts hold 772 glyphs and cover Thai, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese; Cyrillic and Greek are absent. The font's credits name Ekaluck Peanpanawate as designer and Cadson Demak as manufacturer, and the copyright notice names The Krub Project Authors. Krub was added to Google Fonts in 2018.

Where Krub works

Thai body text

Looped Thai letterforms are the conventional style for reading, and Krub was drawn as a text face.

Bilingual Thai and English interfaces

Six weights with italics in both scripts cover labels, paragraphs and emphasis from one family.

Documents and reports

Regular with Italic and SemiBold gives body copy, citations and subheads in the same design.

Light headings

ExtraLight 200 and Light 300 set large titles in a fine line above Regular text.

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 Krub

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 Krub 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: "Krub";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Krub-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Krub";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Krub-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Krub";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Krub-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Krub";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Krub-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: "Krub", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Krub 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=Krub: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

The Thai is looped

Krub keeps the loops of traditional Thai letters, unlike loopless display designs.

Bold 700 is the heaviest weight

The six weights stop at Bold. There is no ExtraBold or Black, and no Thin.

Static files only

The package contains 12 separate files and no variable font.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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