ThaiFonts-Scalable
About
ThaiFonts-Scalable is a collection of Thai scalable fonts available in free licenses. Its goal is to provide fonts that conform to existing standards and recommendations, so that it can be a reference implementation.
So, the fonts have to be modified from their original versions as needed, according to following references:
- Recommendation for Thai font design, from the National Font Project
- Adobe Glyph naming convention
- Microsoft Typography
- Common practice for Thai Windows fonts
We use FontForge (formerly PfaEdit ) as the development tool. You need it to generate fonts from the downloaded source.
News
See ThaiFonts-Scalable Announcements.
Screenshots
See the Font Samples page.
Download
- FTP: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/thailinux/software/thaifonts-scalable
- CVS: thaifonts-scalable is now in TLWG Public CVS Server at
$CVSROOT/software/thaifonts-scalable. More information about TLWG CVS Service is available. - Precompiled fonts: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/thailinux/software/thai-ttf
License
This package collects Thai scalable fonts available in free licenses.
Todo
We are going to do these for release 0.5.0:
- OpenType tables
- Kerning
- Latin glyphs
- Hints
- Common glyph list
Developer Channels
We use developer forum as our communication channel for thaifonts-scalable development.
Interesting Tools
- FontForge -- Outline font editor
- TTX -- From TrueType to XML and Back
- Mensis -- To or for, by, with or from TrueType Tables