Trirong

Try Trirong

Weights and styles

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

About Trirong

Trirong is a serif family that joins a looped Thai design to a Latin in the transitional manner. Its name is the Thai term for the tricolour, the national flag of Thailand. By the official account, the Thai letters are tall and narrow like those of older Thai printing types and finish in oval loops, proportions chosen to fit more text into a line without losing legibility. In the specimen the Latin has thin, flat serifs and a strong swing between heavy stems and hairlines, most visible in the Bold to Black cuts. The weights go from Thin 100 to Black 900, nine in all, each with an italic: 18 static styles and no variable version. The fonts hold 764 glyphs across Thai, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Trirong is a Cadson Demak project under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Trirong works

Dense Thai columns

Tall, narrow Thai letterforms are described as space-saving, which helps in newspaper columns, tables of terms and footnotes.

Institutional publishing

The official description places Trirong in formal contexts such as official notices, academic papers and programme booklets.

High-contrast headlines

ExtraBold 800 and Black 900 pair heavy stems with fine hairlines, giving titles a sharp look at large sizes.

Menus and invitations in light cuts

Thin 100 and ExtraLight 200 draw fine lines that suit short, large settings on printed cards and menus.

Emphasis in two scripts

An italic exists for every one of the weights, so stressed words in Thai and Latin passages keep the weight of the surrounding 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 Trirong

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 Trirong 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: "Trirong";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Trirong-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Trirong";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Trirong-BlackItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Trirong";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Trirong-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Trirong";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Trirong-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: "Trirong", serif;
}

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

Static styles only

Trirong ships as 18 individual TTF files. There is no variable font in the package.

Look-alike Thai letters

According to the official notes, ก ถ ภ ฤ ฦ and also ฎ and ฏ are close in shape, so very short Thai strings need a careful read.

Designer field differs from the listing

The official listing names Cadson Demak as designer; the font files give Katatrad Team as designer and Cadson Demak as manufacturer.

Scripts stop at Thai and Latin

Vietnamese and Latin Extended letters are present. Cyrillic and Greek alphabets are not.

FAQs

Collections with Trirong

• Fonts that support Thai

  Open-license Thai and Latin families, both traditional looped designs and modern loopless ones, for text, interfaces and headlines.

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