Maitree

Try Maitree

Weights and styles

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

About Maitree

Maitree is a serif family for Latin and Thai whose name is the Thai word for friendliness. Its Latin letters are wide, with long flat serifs and terminals that curve unevenly, which the specimen shows most clearly in the a, r and y. The Thai is of the looped kind, and the official notes describe its loop terminals as larger than usual and the placement of vowels and tone marks as carefully managed for readability. Six upright weights run from ExtraLight 200 to Bold 700; there are no italics and no variable font. Each file holds 765 glyphs covering Thai, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets. Cadson Demak, a Thai type foundry, leads the project, and the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Maitree works

Thai and English publications

Thai and Latin were drawn together, so bilingual pages keep one texture across both scripts.

Text with a historical flavour

The official notes recommend the asymmetric terminals for work that calls for an antique manner, such as heritage and museum material.

Magazine headings

ExtraLight and Light show off the long serifs at large sizes, while SemiBold and Bold give compact, dark titles.

Body copy in reports

Regular and Medium have wide, open letters that stay clear in running 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 Maitree

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 Maitree 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: "Maitree";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Maitree-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Maitree";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Maitree-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Maitree";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Maitree-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Maitree";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Maitree-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: "Maitree", serif;
}

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

Things to know

No italics

Maitree has six upright weights and no italic style.

Similar Thai letters

The notes warn that some Thai glyph pairs look alike, which can cause confusion in very short texts.

Wide set

The letters are broad, so Maitree takes more line length than a narrow text serif at the same size.

FAQs

Collections with Maitree

• 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 serif fonts