Taviraj
Designed By
Cadson Demak
18 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Taviraj · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
18 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Taviraj ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
The old capital at dusk
A Page In Taviraj
Taviraj · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
18 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
The old capital at dusk
Thin Italic100
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Extra Light200
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Extra Light Italic200
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Light300
The old capital at dusk
Light Italic300
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Regular400
The old capital at dusk
Italic400
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Medium500
The old capital at dusk
Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
The old capital at dusk
Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
The old capital at dusk
Bold Italic700
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Extra Bold800
The old capital at dusk
Extra Bold Italic800
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Black900
The old capital at dusk
Black Italic900
The old capital at dusk
Taviraj is a Thai word for the last 2 kings of Krungsri Ayutthaya, the former capital, and by extension it has come to mean the fall of a dynasty. King Rama V used it in a poem written when Siam was under threat from French expansion, grieving over the possible end of his era. Cadson Demak then put the name on a typeface in the traditional Thai style called farangses, which means French. The foundry points out the contradiction itself.
It is a formal looped Thai: thick and thin strokes as in a Latin serif, and round, open loops at the terminals. The Latin beside it is a serif on a wide structure, a little wider than Georgia. Cadson Demak spent a good deal of care on the vowel and tone marks, their size and their placement, since they decide both legibility and the texture of a Thai page, and on keeping the fine details of the loops intact as the weights get heavier.
A warning from the designers
Some letters look alike. ก ถ ภ ฤ ฦ form 1 group and ฎ ฏ another, and in a very short text, a label or a single word, a reader can mix them up. In running text the context sorts it out.
The family has 9 weights from Thin to Black, and every one has an italic, 18 styles altogether, with fractions and ordinals. For a formal Thai report or an invitation the Regular and its italic would do most of the work; we’d keep the Black for a cover.
Characters & Figures
724 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Taviraj
18 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 1.5 MB ↓- Version
- 1.001
- 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/taviraj/taviraj.css">
body {
font-family: 'Taviraj', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Taviraj Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.