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Athiti is a Thai word for the Sun, and it is an informal sans Latin and loopless Thai typeface.
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The friendly personality is based on humanist calligraphy, and has an organic look and feel while preserving the traditional construction of Roman type.
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It all started with a desire to learn more about the origin of strokes in human handwriting.
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It is designed to reflect a trace of writing tools and convey its inspiration.
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The family consists of 6 weights that can be used in headlines or body text.
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The outer curves contrast with the angled inner counter shapes, which distributes feelings of strength and softness at the same time.
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Athiti can be used with a mixture of formal and informal content, for example in educational work.
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A similarity between some glyphs such as ก ถ ภ ฤ ฦ, ฎ ฏ, บ ป, or ข ช is something to take into consideration because it might lead to confusion when typesetting very short texts.
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A specific approach has been taken for dealing with thick and thin strokes in the Thai design.
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Other type designers may consider this font as an example when developing new fonts.
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Informal loopless Thai typefaces have slightly simplified details, as compared to the formal looped style, and this allows type designers to extend loopless families to very black weights.
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Sizes and positions of vowels and tone marks need to be managed carefully because they are all relevant to readability, legibility, and overall texture.
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Also, in this case, ink trapping is required when connecting two specific strokes of each glyph, and it has to be done carefully, as it has been in Athiti.
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The Athiti project is led by Cadson Demak, a type foundry in Thailand.
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To contribute, see <a href="http://www.github.com/cadsondemak/athiti">github.com/cadsondemak/athiti</a>
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