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Sunday, April 28, 2024

Fascinating Fonts

The Thai alphabet has an aesthetic appeal that has inspired many creative and artistic works. Since today is National Thai Language Day and to honour Thailand’s mother tongue, here are a few noteworthy Thai-font-inspired works and the creative minds behind them.

Buddhism Meets Typography

Born in Roi Et, Isan artist Charoen Kulsuwan is best known for his unique way of blending typography design with literature to produce what is called in Thailand wannaroop, which loosely translates to images made of words. The art form is perhaps comparable to a concrete poem or shape poem.

(Photo: Charoen Kulsuwan via Lazada Thailand)

Thai language in written form can look rather busy with vowel symbols that can go on the top, bottom, in front of, or even behind consonants….

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