Playpen Sans Thai
Designed By
TypeTogether, Sirin Gunkloy, Laura Meseguer, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
8 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Playpen Sans Thai · Regular
Try a short note, a name or a line of your own to compare the strokes and spacing.
8 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Playpen Sans Thai ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Snacks after class, then homework
A Note On The Page
Playpen Sans Thai · Regular
A short letter, set in the family.
Thursday afternoon
Dear Alex,
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.
See you there.
8 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
Snacks after class, then homework
Extra Light200
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Light300
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Regular400
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Medium500
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Semi Bold600
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Bold700
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Extra Bold800
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Every Thai letter in Playpen Sans Thai starts with a small hook. Thai type usually ends its strokes in a plain loop or no loop at all, and the hook here is placed where a hand would begin writing the letter, a hint lifted from research into which letterforms read best in graphic novels. It looks casual. It also tells a young reader where the pen goes down.
Sirin Gunkloy and Laura Meseguer worked on the family with TypeTogether’s Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, and it belongs to the larger Playpen Sans group, which already had Arabic, Devanagari and Hebrew versions beside the original Playpen Sans. Behind it sits more than 2 years of TypeTogether’s research into how primary schools teach handwriting.
Type the same letter 3 times and you will not get 3 identical shapes. Each character has alternates, and a shuffler built into the font swaps them in as you go so repeats do not sit too close together, which is what a hand does without trying. The 8 weights go from Thin to Extra Bold, and the Latin side is large, over 332 languages per TypeTogether.
There is also a small set of “reward icons” drawn as emoji, a pencil, a dinosaur, a birthday cake, a medal and so on, made to match the stroke weights. A teacher could stamp a worksheet with them. We would not set adult prose at any length in it; the jitter of the alternates is charming for a page of a comic and tiring across a long report.
Characters & Figures
497 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Playpen Sans Thai
8 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 1.5 MB ↓- Version
- 2.000
- 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/playpen-sans-thai/playpen-sans-thai.css">
body {
font-family: 'Playpen Sans Thai', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Playpen Sans Thai Heading · Inter Body
Thursday, Half Past Four
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.