Taviraj

Try Taviraj

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Taviraj Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Taviraj ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Taviraj Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Taviraj Regular Italic
• Medium 500Taviraj Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Taviraj SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Taviraj Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Taviraj ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Taviraj Black Black Italic

About Taviraj

Taviraj is a serif typeface family that sets Thai and Latin text in one design. The Latin letters are broad, with bracketed serifs, a clear difference between thick and thin strokes, and rounded terminals on letters such as a, r and j. The official description says the Thai side is of the looped kind and carries the same thick-and-thin modelling, in a traditional genre known in Thai as farangses, a word meaning French. The name itself points to the last two kings of Ayutthaya, the old Thai capital. Nine weights run from Thin 100 to Black 900, each with an italic, which makes 18 static styles; Taviraj is not a variable font. The fonts hold 763 glyphs covering Thai, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Cadson Demak leads the project, and the files are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Taviraj works

Thai and English documents

Thai and Latin letters share one stroke contrast, so reports and contracts that switch between the two scripts keep an even texture.

Formal correspondence

The official description presents Taviraj as a face for formal use, which fits letters, certificates and annual reports.

Books and long articles

Regular with its italic handles running text and emphasis, while SemiBold and Bold mark subheads inside the same family.

Large titles

Thin 100 and Black 900 sit far apart, so a hairline title and a heavy one can both be set at display size from one download.

Vietnamese and European editions

The Latin set includes the letters needed for Vietnamese, Turkish, Polish and Czech alongside Western European languages.

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 Taviraj

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 Taviraj 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: "Taviraj";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Taviraj-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Taviraj";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Taviraj-BlackItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Taviraj";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Taviraj-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Taviraj";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Taviraj-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 14 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Taviraj", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Taviraj 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=Taviraj:ital,wght@0,100;0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;0,800;0,900;1,100;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700;1,800;1,900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

18 separate files, no variable version

Each weight and each italic is its own static TTF file. The package contains no variable font.

Some Thai letters look alike

The official notes warn that ก ถ ภ and the pair ฎ ฏ resemble one another closely, which can cause misreading in very short strings such as labels.

Two designer credits

The official listing credits Cadson Demak, while the designer field inside the font files reads Katatrad Team, with Cadson Demak as manufacturer.

No Cyrillic or Greek

Coverage is Thai plus Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Cyrillic and Greek alphabets are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Taviraj

• Font families with nine weights and italics

  Complete families running from Thin to Black with an italic for every weight: eighteen styles for a full typographic system.

Similar fonts

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