Pattaya

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Pattaya Regular

About Pattaya

Pattaya is a heavy, slanted script that brings Thai into the design of Lobster, the Latin script by Pablo Impallari. The specimen shows the Latin side: thick strokes with strong contrast, a steady forward slant, lowercase letters that touch and join, and capitals with curled entry strokes. The Thai letters are drawn in an informal loopless style, with thick and thin strokes handled to match. According to the official notes, the line spacing metrics had to change to make room for Thai vowels and tone marks above and below the line, which is why Pattaya is published as its own family. Cadson Demak led the project, and the name table credits Thanarat Vachiruckul and Suppakit Chalermlarp for the Thai characters. There is one Regular style of 924 glyphs with Thai, Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese subsets.

Where Pattaya works

Thai and English shop signs

Thai and Latin share one bold script style, so a bilingual name looks like a single piece of lettering.

Restaurant menus and food packaging

Thick, slanted strokes give dish names and product titles a hand-lettered look.

Poster and banner headlines

The heavy weight holds a short Thai or Latin headline at large size.

Logos

Joined lowercase and curled capitals turn one word into a compact mark.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Thai. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, 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 Pattaya

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 Pattaya 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: "Pattaya";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Pattaya-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Pattaya 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=Pattaya&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Similar Thai letters

The official notes warn that some Thai glyphs resemble each other in this style, which can confuse readers in very short texts.

Taller line spacing

Vertical metrics were adjusted for Thai vowel and tone marks, so lines sit further apart than in the Latin original.

One style

Pattaya has Regular only, with no bold or italic.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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