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Anakotmai

อนาคตใหม่

By Narongsak Chaiwong

Typography & Licensing Specialist, ThaiGraph · July 4, 2026 · Updated August 22, 2026

Information verified as of August 2026

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What Anakotmai is

Anakotmai (อนาคตใหม่) is a free Thai loopless sans in three weights — Light, Medium and Bold — drawn by Cadson Demak as a custom headline typeface, and given away by the party that commissioned it under terms that permit commercial use. It covers Thai and Latin, and it is not on Google Fonts.

The design brief is in Cadson Demak’s own release post: a loopless, wide structure on a Neo-Humanist foundation, mixing sweeping curved strokes with straight lines on selected characters so the face stays recognisable at headline sizes. The Latin is drawn to the same visual texture as the Thai, which is why mixed-script settings hold one voice instead of reading as two fonts sharing a layout.

The ThaiFaces specimen records the designer as สมิชฌน์ สมันเลาะ, published 2018, filed under Sans-serif, Display and Corporate Identity. In English he publishes as Smich Smanloh, a type director and project leader at Cadson Demak. For the rest of that foundry’s catalogue, see Cadson Demak fonts.

Is Anakotmai free?

Yes, and unusually for a custom corporate typeface, commercial use is explicitly included. Both official distribution pages state the font is “แจกฟรี เพื่อสาธารณะประโยชน์” — given away free for public benefit — and that it “สามารถดาวน์โหลดใช้งานได้อย่างอิสระรวมทั้งเชิงพาณิชย์”, may be downloaded and used freely, including commercially.

That wording appears on the People’s Party font page and on the older Move Forward Party font page, and both link the same Google Drive folder. You do not need to ask permission, register, or pay.

What that sentence does not do is turn Anakotmai into an open-source font. It grants use. It says nothing about modifying the outlines, renaming a derivative, or redistributing the files yourself, and there is no SIL Open Font License text in the package. If your project needs those rights spelled out in writing, see the alternatives below and our Thai font licensing guide for how the licence families differ.

Anakotmai weights: Light, Medium and Bold

Anakotmai ships three weights and three styles: Light, Medium and Bold. There are no italics, no condensed or extended widths, and no variable axis.

If you searched for “Anakotmai Bold”, that is the heaviest weight in the family — there is nothing above it. No Black, no ExtraBold, no Heavy. When a layout calls for more weight than Bold gives you, the answer is a bigger size or a different family, not a fourth cut, because a fourth cut does not exist.

Three weights is a headline inventory, not a text inventory. Set running copy in a proper text family — Sarabun is the obvious choice — and keep Anakotmai for the lines people read from across a room. You can put your own copy through all three weights in the Thai font tester.

How to download Anakotmai

The official download is a public Google Drive folder linked from the People’s Party font page. It holds two files: Anakotmai.zip (494 KB) and Pracharath_FFPv.2.zip (73 KB), both shared on 24 October 2561 (2018).

Anakotmai.zip is the one you want. The second archive is a separate release the same party distributed from the same folder, named Pracharath_FFPv.2.zip, and it is not part of the Anakotmai family. Nothing in the folder costs money and nothing asks for an email address.

A note on where the files come from. The original futureforwardparty.org download page is gone, and links to it in older Thai design articles are dead. The People’s Party page is the current live host. Because both party pages point at the same Drive folder rather than at separate uploads, the file you get is identical either way.

Ignore the aggregator sites offering “Anakotmai free download” with their own installers. The font is already free from a first-party source, so there is no reason to take a repackaged copy from anywhere else.

Where Anakotmai came from

Anakotmai was commissioned as the headline face for one political party’s communications, and it has now outlived two of them. Cadson Demak states the purpose plainly in its release post: the typeface was drawn to sit on the Future Forward Party’s publicity material.

Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolved the Future Forward Party on 21 February 2020, ruling that a loan from the party leader fell under “other benefits” in section 66 of the Political Parties Act. The successor party, Move Forward, kept hosting the font. The Constitutional Court then dissolved Move Forward on 7 August 2024, in a case arising from its campaign to amend the lèse-majesté provision in section 112 of the Penal Code, finding that the party had acted to overthrow the democratic system of government with the King as head of state — ล้มล้างการปกครองระบอบประชาธิปไตยอันมีพระมหากษัตริย์ทรงเป็นประมุข, the court’s own formulation. The People’s Party now hosts the same file.

Two practical consequences for a designer. First, the association is live in Thailand, not historical trivia — a Thai audience may read the typeface as a political signal, so choose it knowingly for commercial brand work. Second, the hosting has moved twice in six years, which is an argument for archiving the files you licence rather than hotlinking a party website.

Name variants and spellings

The same typeface is searched for under several names, all of which mean this font:

• Anakotmai — the name Cadson Demak and both party pages use
• อนาคตใหม่ — the Thai name, which is also the party’s name
• ฟอนต์ อนาคตใหม่ / ฟอนต์ anakotmai — “font” prefixed, the standard Thai search shape
• Anakotmai Bold — the heaviest of the three weights, and the most-searched cut
• Anakotmai font download — the query behind most of the traffic to this page
• Future Forward font — searched by people who know the party’s English name but not the typeface’s
• Anakotmai thai font — the mixed-script form used when the Thai character set is the point

There is no separate “Anakotmai Pro”, “Anakotmai New” or numbered release. One family, three weights, one distribution point.

Free alternatives to Anakotmai

If you need the rights spelled out — modification, self-hosted webfont, embedding, derivative work — use a Thai family under the SIL Open Font License instead. Three of them come from the same foundry. Licences confirmed in the Google Fonts repository:

• Kanit — OFL, Cadson Demak, nine weights from 100 to 900 with an italic at every weight. The closest match in character with a far deeper weight range.
• Prompt — OFL, Cadson Demak, also nine weights with italics, in a slightly rounder and quieter register.
• Mitr — OFL, Cadson Demak, six weights from ExtraLight 200 to Bold 700. Softer letterforms, good for signage and friendly headlines.
• Sarabun — OFL, Suppakit Chalermlarp, weights 100 to 800 with italics. Not a display face; the body companion you will need anyway.

None of these is a drop-in replacement. Anakotmai’s wide proportions are the point of it, and swapping in a narrower family will change every line break. Browse the full set in loopless Thai fonts and free Thai fonts.

Best use cases

Anakotmai is a headline and display face: wide, loopless and modern, built to carry short Thai lines at size. Strong briefs:

• Poster and banner headlines that must read from a distance
• Social graphics and video title cards, mostly in Medium and Bold
• Event and campaign branding wanting an assertive contemporary Thai voice
• Editorial pull-quotes and section openers above a quieter body face

Where it does not fit: running body text, anything needing italics or a weight above Bold, projects that require a formally open licence for modification or redistribution, and commercial brand work where the political association would be read as a statement.

Pairings

Anakotmai works as the display voice above a well-built Thai text family, never as the text family itself. Three combinations:

• Sarabun — the open-licensed Thai body workhorse; its neutrality lets Anakotmai’s wide headlines carry the page
• Noto Serif Thai — a looped serif counterpoint for editorial layouts that want contrast between a modern headline and traditional text
• Kanit — a fellow Cadson Demak loopless sans for secondary hierarchy when the whole system should stay loopless

For the mechanics of matching Thai to Latin across a bilingual system, see our Thai typography guide.

Licensing

Anakotmai is free to download and free to use commercially, on the authority of the party pages that distribute it. It is not released under the SIL Open Font License, and no published term covers modification, renaming, or redistribution of the files.

ThaiFaces files it with the note “เงื่อนไข : ฟอนต์อัตลักษณ์องค์กร กรุณาเลือกใช้อย่างเหมาะสม” — a corporate identity font, please use it appropriately. That is a request about judgement, not a legal restriction, and it reflects what the typeface was made for.

Practically: use it in client work, in print, in campaigns, in commercial design, and keep a copy of the source page with your project files as evidence of the grant. Do not redistribute the font files yourself, do not sell it inside a template, and do not modify the outlines, because none of those is covered. If you need any of them, use Kanit or Prompt under the OFL, and compare the terms side by side in the Thai font licensing guide. Every family in the font library carries its licence on the page.

Information verified as of August 2026