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TH Kodchasal

คชสาร

By Narongsak Chaiwong

Typography & Licensing Specialist, ThaiGraph · October 19, 2026

Information verified as of October 2026

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What TH Kodchasal is

TH Kodchasal (คชสาร) is one of the 13 National Fonts of Thailand: a four-style Thai face by Kansuda Peamprajakpong, 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. The name means “elephant”. On 7 September 2010 the Council of Ministers named all thirteen fonts in the set the “national fonts”, as Wikipedia records.

Inside the files, the designer field reads Mrs. Kansuda Peamprajakpong and the trademark line names the AS Aksaramatee Group, which is Aksaramethi, the same team f0nt.com credits for TH Niramit AS and TH Srisakdi in this set.

This page covers the original SIPA files. Kodchasan on Google Fonts is the version Cadson Demak reworked in 2018. The whole set of thirteen is at Thai National Fonts.

Why it is spelled Kodchasal in some places and Kodchasan in others

The name stored in the original font files is “TH Kodchasal”, ending in l; the Google Fonts version uses “Kodchasan”, ending in n. Both refer to the same elephant. Install the SIPA files, open Word, and the font menu shows TH Kodchasal, which is why people search for it under that name.

The l spelling is not just a file-name quirk. The reserved-name list in the DIP and SIPA licence also reads “TH Kodchasal” for all four styles. Yet f0nt.com’s release page now labels the font “TH Kodchasan” while its download link still serves 06-TH-Kodchasal.zip, and Wikipedia uses “TH Kodchasan” beside a specimen image whose file is named TH Kodchasal.

If a template or an older document calls for “TH Kodchasal”, only the original SIPA files will satisfy it. The Google Fonts file installs as “Kodchasan”, which Word treats as a different font.

How TH Kodchasal differs from Google’s Kodchasan

They are the same design in different files: TH Kodchasal is SIPA’s 2006 file in four styles under the DIP and SIPA licence, while Kodchasan is Cadson Demak’s 2018 redraw in twelve styles under the OFL. Cadson Demak’s README credits the design: “Designed by Kansuda Peamprajakpong as a part of SIPA Thailand’s National fonts project”. We opened both sets on 19 October 2026, so the table comes from the files themselves.

The size gap matters most when swapping fonts in a document. Kodchasan at 16 points looks clearly larger than TH Kodchasal at 16 points, so text lengthens and pages reflow. And the “Kodchasan” offered in Google Docs since 2019 is the Google Fonts version, not the original file.

Character design and tone

TH Kodchasal is a looped Thai face drawn from neat teenage handwriting: friendly and polite without tipping into novelty. Cadson Demak’s README calls it “Formal and controlled handwriting” and notes that its gentle hand makes the face soft-spoken.

In the files themselves the strokes are fairly even in weight, the loops are clear, and the structure is plain enough for short paragraphs. The handwriting lives in the rhythm and the detail of the strokes rather than in any cursive joining. The bundled Latin shares the same tone and handles English words and numerals in running text.

Weights and availability

TH Kodchasal ships four TrueType files, Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic, in the archive 06-TH-Kodchasal.zip on f0nt.com’s National Fonts page. That release page shows 757,861 downloads (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 Kodchasal.

For light or medium weights, or for a website, use Kodchasan, which runs from 200 to 700 and is served as a webfont. To compare with your own text, use the Thai font tester.

Best use cases

TH Kodchasal suits work aimed at children, teenagers or anyone you want to address informally, while staying inside the free National Font set. Good briefs:

• Worksheets, classroom signs and school activity handouts
• Internal notices that should not sound official
• Slide and poster headings that want a handwritten feel but must stay easy to read
• Headings over body text in TH Sarabun New or TH Niramit AS

Where it does not fit: official correspondence, where the 2010 cabinet resolution singled out TH Sarabun PSK, and brand work that needs gravity.

Licensing

TH Kodchasal 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 Kodchasal 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