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English Font, Thai Look: AW Siam
Posted on May 10th, 2008 11 commentsWhat’s not to love about this font?
AW Siam is a free font for Mac and PC that give you English characters with REAL Thai flair.
It even uses a few actual Thai characters. (For example, “a” is “lor ling”, “T” is “sara o” and “n” is “tor ta-haan.”)
The funny thing is, when I showed it to some of my Thai friends that read English, they had a hard time reading it–the “Thainess” of the characters threw them!
11 responses to “English Font, Thai Look: AW Siam”
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THAILAND
Tom yam, pad thai ..hard to read
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I was staring for minutes just to find out what’s the first line!
Wonder if your English-user friends will be able to read it faster than Thais?
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It’s actually pretty easy for native English speakers to read the words–just because we don’t “see” the Thai characters when we look at it.
Thai people do see the Thai characters–so it confuses them and makes it hard to read.
Maybe we farangs can use this as a secret code.
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heymatty May 12th, 2008 at 17:20
oh awesome
now i can pretend to be a -fake- thai -
I can’t read it. Is it English or Thai?
What does it say? -
bangkok
phuket
??
koh samui
pattaya
chiang maioh man…it’s hard to read.
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I had a hard time figuring them out:
THAILAND
Tom Yam, Pad Thai (This line is the hardest)
Bangkok, Phuket, Korat
Koh Samui, Pattaya, Chiang Mai (Easiest line)—
Maybe you guys will have fun reading the font on this site too: http://www.ciup.fr/, It’s in French, but it has the most awesome font ever!
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I can’t read that. so hard for me
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meekob May 22nd, 2008 at 17:18
It’s actually too hard to read and interpret. (for Thai)
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It’s easier to read Lao font than this. (^_^;)
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This font made a Thai like me sick, hee hee :-p
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keng May 10th, 2008 at 17:27