Chenla
Designed By
Danh Hong
1 Style Display
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Chenla · Regular
Try a short headline and compare the letterforms at a larger scale.
1 style available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Chenla ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
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A Headline In Place
Chenla · Regular
A poster setting with supporting text.
Character Selection
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Try your own text above to check connected letterforms and spacing in context.
1 Style,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
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Chenla was the Chinese name for a state that ruled parts of what is now Cambodia from about the late 6th to the early 9th century, before Angkor. Danh Hong borrowed it for this Khmer font, which first went out as NiDA Chenla.
Hong’s long run of Khmer and Southeast Asian fonts ties in with KhmerOS, a project that wants Cambodians learning and working on computers in Khmer. Chenla is 1 of about 20 Khmer families of his on Google Fonts, next to names like Angkor, Bokor and Siemreap.
Khmer stacks subscript consonants and vowel signs above and below the base letters, so the font maps only 137 characters but holds hundreds of extra shapes for those combinations. There is no Latin at all, and 1 Regular. For a Khmer headline or a shop sign, it is ready to go.
Characters & Figures
137 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 133 recorded characters.
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View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Chenla
1 TTF style with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 52 KB ↓- Version
- 6.00
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/chenla/chenla.css">
body {
font-family: 'Chenla', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.