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TH Fah Kwang

ฟ้ากว้าง

By Narongsak Chaiwong

Typography & Licensing Specialist, ThaiGraph · October 19, 2026

Information verified as of October 2026

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What TH Fah Kwang is

TH Fah Kwang (ฟ้ากว้าง) is number 13 of Thailand’s National Fonts: a four-style Thai face by Team Eleven (Kitti Sirirattanabunchai and Niwat Phattharowat), released free by SIPA and the Department of Intellectual Property through f0nt.com on 28 June 2007. It ships in Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. On 7 September 2010 the Council of Ministers named all thirteen fonts in the set the “national fonts”, as Wikipedia records.

The name means “the wide sky”, and it describes the face well: the letters take more horizontal room than most Thai type. Team Eleven left their name in the files too. The manufacturer field in every file’s name table reads simply “11”.

This page covers the original SIPA files. Fahkwang on Google Fonts is the version Cadson Demak reworked in 2018. The names are close enough to cause constant confusion, but the files, the letter size, the weight range and the licence all differ. The next section compares them point by point. The whole set of thirteen is at Thai National Fonts.

How TH Fah Kwang differs from Google’s Fahkwang

They are the same design in different files: TH Fah Kwang is SIPA’s 2006 file in four styles under the DIP and SIPA licence, while Fahkwang is Cadson Demak’s 2018 redraw in twelve styles under the OFL. Wikipedia describes Fahkwang as “Based on TH Fah Kwang”. We downloaded both sets on 19 October 2026 and read the files directly, so this table comes from the fonts themselves.

Size is the difference that bites in practice. At the same point size the Google letters are much bigger, so a document set in TH Fah Kwang will reflow if you swap in Fahkwang. Going the other way, drop the point size first and adjust from there.

Also note that Google Docs, Sheets and Slides have offered a font called “Fah Kwang” since 2019, per Google Workspace’s announcement. That is the Google Fonts version, not the SIPA original.

Character design and tone

TH Fah Kwang is a looped Thai headline face with wide, squarish letters and clear thick-thin contrast, modelled on Thai newspaper headlines from the hot-metal era. That description comes from Cadson Demak’s README, which calls the design “The revival of an old fashion display from hot metal type era”, with a square silhouette and a willingness to use proportions wider than Thai type usually allows.

On the page, words look steady and open. The letters keep their loops, so any Thai reader reads them at once, but the width and stroke contrast make the text read as a heading rather than as body copy. The README sums it up as suited to “news and document headline and sub headline”.

The Latin that comes in the original files is a plain sans sized close to the Thai. It handles English words and Arabic numerals inside a headline, but it was not designed as a full Latin typeface.

Weights and availability

TH Fah Kwang ships four TrueType files, Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic, in the archive 13-TH-Fah-Kwang.zip on f0nt.com’s National Fonts page. That release page shows 673,368 downloads for TH Fah Kwang (read on 19 October 2026).

To install on Windows, follow Microsoft’s steps: right-click the .zip and choose Extract, then right-click all four .ttf files and choose Install. Restart Word and search the font menu for TH Fah kwang (lower-case k, as the name is stored in the files), not the file name “TH Fahkwang”.

For websites, apps, or anything that needs weights lighter than Regular, use Fahkwang, which runs from 200 to 700 and is served as a webfont. To see either with your own text first, use the Thai font tester.

Best use cases

TH Fah Kwang suits headings and subheadings in documents that want a National Font with more character than Sarabun. Good briefs:

• Report titles, newsletters and internal announcements
• Notice-board headlines, posters and slides that want the feel of an older Thai newspaper
• Headings over body text set in TH Sarabun New or TH Sarabun PSK, which come from the same national set

Where it does not fit: long body text, where the width and contrast tire the eye over full paragraphs, and the body of official correspondence, where the 2010 cabinet resolution singled out TH Sarabun PSK.

Licensing

TH Fah Kwang is free to use under the Department of Intellectual Property and SIPA licence included in the zip, not the OFL: you may use, copy and redistribute it, but you may not sell the font file, and any modified version requires written notice to the owners and a new name. The four conditions in the DIP&SIPA Font License Agreement:

1. Free to use, reproduce, study, adapt and distribute, but neither the original nor an adapted version may be sold by itself, except bundled with other software.
2. Anyone adapting it must notify the copyright owners in writing.
3. An adapted version may not use the reserved names, which include all four TH Fah Kwang styles.
4. An adapted version must be released under the same licence.

The licence does not prohibit commercial use; what it prohibits is selling the font file. For PDF embedding, the files set fsType to 0, which the OpenType specification defines as installable embedding. For how this licence compares with OFL and GPL, see the Thai font licensing guide and the wider typography section.

Information verified as of October 2026