Sarabun

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Weights and styles

• Thin 100Sarabun Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Sarabun ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Sarabun Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Sarabun Regular Italic
• Medium 500Sarabun Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Sarabun SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Sarabun Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Sarabun ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic

About Sarabun

Sarabun is a sans serif family that covers the Thai and Latin scripts in one design. The official notes describe it as the open release of the typeface known as TH Sarabun New, explain that the name refers to documentary affairs, and say that Thailand's Government Gazette is set in it. In the Latin specimen the strokes swell and thin slightly, the apertures are open and the lowercase is moderately tall, giving a humanist rather than geometric texture. The family has eight weights, Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold, each with an italic, 16 styles in all, supplied as static files; it is not a variable font. Each font holds 777 glyphs for the Thai, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets. Suppakit Chalermlarp is credited as designer.

Where Sarabun works

Thai and English documents

Thai and Latin letters come from one design, so bilingual reports, letters and forms keep an even texture across both scripts.

Official and administrative paperwork

Thailand's Government Gazette is set in this typeface, and Regular with Bold covers body text and headings in the same manner.

Websites with Thai content

Eight weights give a Thai-language site separate cuts for navigation, body copy and headings without mixing families.

Long reading

Regular and Light with their italics handle paragraphs, emphasis and captions in articles and manuals.

Presentations and slides

SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold provide titles that match the body text set in the lighter weights.

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 Sarabun

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 Sarabun 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: "Sarabun";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sarabun-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sarabun";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sarabun-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sarabun";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sarabun-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sarabun";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sarabun-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 12 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Sarabun 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=Sarabun:ital,wght@0,100;0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;0,800;1,100;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700;1,800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Static files only

Sarabun is supplied as 16 separate TTF files, one for each weight and italic. There is no variable version in the package.

The range stops at ExtraBold

The heaviest weight is ExtraBold 800; the family has no Black.

Thai and Latin in one font

Each file carries the Thai character set next to Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Collections with Sarabun

• 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 sans serif fonts