Payap Lanna

A traditional-style font for the Tai Tham script of Southeast Asia.

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Payap Lanna–A Traditional Tai Tham Font Family

Payap Lanna is a free and open Tai Tham font family for writing systems that use this elegant script of Northern Thailand. It is named after Payap University in Chiang Mai where the encoding of this script was developed.

Tai Tham (or Lanna) script shares many characteristics of other Brahmic scripts of Southeast Asia. Payap Lanna makes the script’s rich calligraphic tradition available for a wide range of modern typographic uses, including books, signage, and electronic media.

Both regular and bold weights are included in the download package, along with WOFF and WOFF2 versions of the fonts for use with web pages. State-of-the-art Graphite font technology provides accurate typography, with correctly positioned combining marks and properly formed consonant clusters and conjuncts.

Heritage

Lanna means “thousand rice fields” and is the name of the former kingdom of the Northern Thai people, which was centered in present day Northern Thailand. Read more about the project.

Design

The fonts include regular and bold weights. Also included is a wealth of alternate forms and variant glyphs. Read more about our technical resources.

Languages

Payap Lanna primarily supports the style and glyph design preferred for writing the Northern Thai language and may not be as useful for other languages that use the Tai Tham script (Tai Lue, Khuen). It follows the current Unicode encoding and will continue to adjust to any future enhancements. Read more about our character set support.

Common questions

Why does this font only support Graphite?

The current OpenType and shaping engine support for Tai Tham does not correctly handle some sequences, and there is no workaround. Graphite provides proper rendering for those sequences, but requires an application that supports Graphite.

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