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TH Charm of AU

By Narongsak Chaiwong

Typography & Licensing Specialist, ThaiGraph · July 16, 2026

Information verified as of July 2026

What TH Charm of AU is

TH Charm of AU is the handwriting member of Thailand’s 13 National Fonts — a script face drawn from traditional Thai certificate penmanship, designed by Kanlayanamit Noraratphutthi and released free in 2007 by SIPA and the Department of Intellectual Property. Its name comes from the designer’s university email address ([email protected]), and it carries the “TH” prefix of the royalty-free government font set.

Unlike the document faces in the National Font family, Charm of AU is expressive. It reproduces the pointed, flicked tails (หางแหลม) of formal Thai handwriting, the kind seen on hand-lettered certificates and diplomas. That makes it the family’s decorative outlier — not a body face but a face for occasions.

Do not confuse it with the Google Fonts Charm family or with Charmonman; those are separate later releases. TH Charm of AU is the original SIPA file, distributed inside the National Font package — see /learn/typography/ for the wider Thai script tradition it draws on.

Character design and tone

TH Charm of AU renders Thai letterforms as thin, sharp calligraphic strokes with distinctive pointed tails that flick outward in a hand-lettered flourish. The strokes are high in contrast and deliberately delicate, which gives the face elegance at large sizes and makes it demanding to read in long runs.

The consonant heads follow the loop structure of formal Thai handwriting rather than the clean circular heads of a document sans. Ascenders and the flicked terminals carry most of the personality; set small, that detail collapses, which is why the face belongs in headings and short lines, not paragraphs.

The tone is ceremonial and traditional — closer to an award certificate than a memo. It reads as Thai penmanship rendered in type, which is exactly the register it was designed for.

Weights and availability

TH Charm of AU is distributed primarily as a single decorative Regular cut within the SIPA National Font package, as a TrueType file via f0nt.com. As a script display face it was never scoped for the multi-weight hierarchy the document members carry; its job is one expressive line, not a type system.

Download it from the f0nt.com National Fonts package, the channel SIPA used to release all thirteen. Pair it with a plain body face rather than asking it to carry text.

Best use cases

TH Charm of AU is a display and occasion face — reach for it when a line needs the feel of formal Thai handwriting. Strong briefs:

• Certificates, diplomas and awards where hand-lettered elegance is the point
• Invitations, greeting cards and ceremonial headings
• Titles and short display lines in traditional or cultural design
• Any brief that wants Thai calligraphic character without a lettering artist

Where it does not fit: body text of any length (the thin strokes and flicked tails tire the eye), government documents (use TH Sarabun New), and UI. For a warm looped body companion, set the text in Sarabun and let Charm of AU carry only the heading.

Licensing

TH Charm of AU is free to use: it is one of the 13 SIPA National Fonts released royalty-free by the Department of Intellectual Property for public and official use. Verify the distribution on the f0nt.com National Fonts page. Commercial use, redistribution and embedding are permitted. For a plain-language guide to Thai font licences, see /learn/typography/thai-font-licensing/.

Information verified as of July 2026