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Srisakdi

ศรีศักดิ์ · TH Srisakdi

By Narongsak Chaiwong

Typography & Licensing Specialist, ThaiGraph · June 13, 2026 · Updated August 5, 2026

Information verified as of August 2026

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<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Srisakdi:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Srisakdi:wght@400;700&display=swap');

font-family: 'Srisakdi', cursive;

Srisakdi and TH Srisakdi are the same typeface

Yes — Srisakdi on Google Fonts and TH Srisakdi (ศรีศักดิ์) from Thailand’s 13 National Fonts are the same design; only the distribution build differs, and Google Fonts drops the TH prefix. Both come in two weights, Regular and Bold, and both are free.

The TH prefix is the National Fonts project’s naming convention — all thirteen faces carry it: TH Sarabun PSK, TH Charmonman, TH Kodchasan and the rest. In practice that means if a government document template names the font “TH Srisakdi”, you need the SIPA build, not the Google Fonts one, because the internal family names differ and Word will not find a match.

The name is what sets this font apart from most free releases. Prof. Srisakdi Charmonman Ph.D produced the original design, then commissioned Akarameytee — Pairoj Peamjakapong and Bavorn Joradol — to finish the drawing for SIPA’s National Fonts project. The font carries the professor’s given name; Charmonman carries his surname. Two fonts in the same set, named after the same man.

On 7 September 2010 the Thai cabinet adopted the 13 National Fonts as the official fonts for government agencies, with implementation required by 5 December 2010. In 2018 Cadson Demak reworked the whole set with Google Fonts, and Srisakdi entered the library on 22 August 2018.

TH Srisakdi Bold and the full weight list

Srisakdi ships exactly two weights — Regular (400) and Bold (700) — in upright cuts only. No italics, no intermediate weights, and both arrive in the same download. There is no separate Bold file to find.

Two weights is the smallest family in Cadson Demak’s National Fonts revision, and it is a real constraint: there is no Light for oversized title settings and no Medium to step through between the two. If a layout needs more than two levels, build the hierarchy from size and spacing rather than weight.

The Google Fonts build is two TTF files of roughly 102 KB each, with no variable-font build. Character coverage spans Thai, Latin, Latin Extended, and Vietnamese.

Choosing a weight: Srisakdi is a high-contrast handwriting face, so the thin strokes in Regular thin out when scaled down or shown on a low-resolution display. For titles over a colour field or a photograph, start with Bold.

How to download TH Srisakdi free

Srisakdi is a legitimate free download from Google Fonts — the family ZIP contains both TTF weights, no registration, no payment. Three routes:

1. Google Fonts ZIP — open the Srisakdi specimen, click “Get font”, and download the family.
2. CSS embed — load https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Srisakdi:wght@400;700&display=swap in a <link> tag, then set font-family: 'Srisakdi', serif;. Reserve it for headings in the stylesheet; body text is not its job.
3. GitHub source — the cadsondemak/Srisakdi repository holds the font files, project documentation, and the OFL notice.

For government work: the original TH Srisakdi is still distributed through the National Fonts project and the f0nt.com release page for the thirteen fonts. Use that build when opening or editing documents laid out against a departmental template.

To see the letterforms with your own text first, use the Thai font tester.

Name variants and spellings

The name is a romanised Thai personal name, so it is written several ways. All of these mean the same font:

• TH Srisakdi — the National Fonts name, used in government document templates
• Srisakdi — the Google Fonts name, with the TH prefix dropped
• ศรีศักดิ์ — the Thai name, after Prof. Srisakdi Charmonman
• TH-Srisakdi — the hyphenated form, common in filenames
• TH Srisakdi Bold — the Bold (700) cut, included in the same download

Character design and tone

The project repository describes Srisakdi as imitating “early Thai Ratanakosin style of controlled handwriting using western ink and paper” — a clerk’s hand, regularised into a typeface. The letterforms keep the slant and flicked tail of period manuscript writing, which gives every line a documentary, old-world cast.

The foundry’s own framing is generous: the repository calls Srisakdi “an ideal of old style long reading Thai text face for retrospective occasions.” That claim deserves a caveat. Google Fonts categorises the family as display rather than text, it ships only two weights, and the handwriting detail that charms at 40px clots at 14px. Treat Srisakdi as a headline and titling instrument.

For paragraph-length retrospective text, the face built for exactly that job is Thasadith. Its repository records that Thasadith was originally developed as part of the Srisakdi family and only later spun off, built on the question of what Srisakdi would have been had it been born as an upright typeface during the hot metal period, with letterforms readjusted to suit typesetting conditions. That is why Thasadith is the correct text partner for Srisakdi rather than merely a face that happens to look compatible.

The Latin is styled to match the Thai manuscript flavour, so bilingual title cards stay in period.

Best use cases

Srisakdi belongs on anything that needs to read as a Thai historical document: exhibition titles, ceremony print, and retrospective editorial covers. Strong briefs:

• Museum and heritage exhibition titling, especially Rattanakosin-era subject matter
• Certificates, invitations, and ceremonial print
• Period film and book title treatments
• Restaurant and spirits branding trading on pre-modern Thai identity
• Headings in government documents that must stay inside the mandated National Fonts set

Where it fails: interface text and body copy at screen sizes, corporate identity of any contemporary kind, and data-heavy layouts. It is a costume, and costumes do not belong in spreadsheets. For the same voice at text sizes, use Thasadith; for a looser script feel, Sriracha.

Pairings and near neighbours

Srisakdi sets the headline; everything else on the page should stand back. Three pairings:

• Thasadith — the partner by descent: the family that split off from Srisakdi and was reworked to typeset as running text, for body copy under Srisakdi titles
• Maitree — looped serif body when the page should stay antique throughout
• Sarabun — neutral body that lets the display face do all the talking, or TH Sarabun PSK when the whole document must stay inside the National Fonts set

For other free Thai handwriting faces worth comparing, see Charmonman and the Thai display font category.

Licensing

Srisakdi is released under the SIL Open Font License — free for commercial use, web embedding, modification, and bundling, provided the OFL notice stays with the files. The copyright line reads “Copyright 2018 The Srisakdi Project Authors.” Verify at the Google Fonts specimen or the GitHub repository.

The original TH Srisakdi was likewise distributed free under the National Fonts project, so neither generation of the design has ever cost anything. Compare the terms against commercial Thai families in the Thai font licensing guide, or browse everything free in the free Thai fonts category.

Information verified as of August 2026