Busra

Busra is a font family for the Khmer script

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Busra—an updated version of a popular Khmer font

The Busra font family is the latest version of the popular Khmer Busra font first released as part of the Mondulkiri project. This Khmer font has been improved and updated for a wide range of uses, from print to web, and to support the latest Khmer text encoding best practices.

There are now six weights in the Busra family: ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold. This new range of weights replaces the lighter weight Khmer Mondulkiri font family. Webfonts in both WOFF and WOFF2 formats are provided for use on websites and in applications built on web technologies. Font file sizes have been dramatically reduced: the OpenType (.ttf) fonts are less than one fifth the size of Khmer Busra, and the WOFF2 versions are compressed to only 7% of the former size. Read more about the font family design.

The fonts also conform to the latest Khmer Encoding Structure specification (Unicode Technical Note #61). This encoding prevents ambiguity and ensures that any given visual form has only one encoding, which will improve text portability between technical platforms.

The family is named after the Bou Sra waterfall in Mondulkiri Province. It supports most of the Cambodian languages written in the Khmer script.

Range of Weights

Busra includes a wide range of weights, from ExtraLight to Bold, that match common CSS weights for web use. Read more about the design.

Languages

The script has been used to write a wide variety of languages in Southeast Asia. Busra has special OpenType features to support language-specific preferences. Read more about our font features.

Full Character Set

Busra supports the full range of Khmer script characters in The Unicode Standard plus basic Latin and additional decorative symbols. Read more about our character set support.

Common questions

How is this font different from original Khmer Busra font?

The name of the font family has changed from “Khmer Busra” to “Busra” to allow both versions of the font to be installed simultaneously. It supports a new Khmer Encoding Structure. There is no longer support for Graphite or AAT technology. The Latin has been completely redesigned. There are additional weights, although Oblique (italic) weights are not yet available.

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