Samakarn
Katatrad · Thanarat Vachiruckul · 2015
A Thai humanist sans-serif with loop-less terminals, wide proportions and five weights designed for versatile use across contemporary layouts.
About
Samakarn pairs loop-less terminal construction with humanist letterform proportions, producing a typeface that reads openly across a range of layout conditions. Five weights from UltraLight to Black give the family expressive range suitable for both text and display contexts. Coverage includes both Thai and Latin 1 scripts, making it functional for bilingual Thai-English communication.
Classification
A loop-less Thai sans-serif with humanist proportions – wide, open letterforms with clean terminals. The loop-less construction is a defining characteristic of contemporary Thai sans-serif design, analogous to humanist grotesque conventions in Latin type.