HFF Thai Dye by Have Fun with Fonts is a free experimental display font with extreme stroke contrast and sharply altered letterforms. Tall black uprights meet hairline curves and oversized, looping forms.
Designers working in fashion, music, and alternative culture can draw on its strange elegance for posters, editorial covers, and event graphics with a theatrical or surreal edge. Boutique packaging and identity work are another good fit, since the broken geometry and ornamental curves can turn a brand name into an abstract emblem rather than ordinary lettering on the page.
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Based on “Siamese” from Dan Solo’s Special Effects and Topical Alphabets.
HFF Thai Dye by Have Fun with Fonts, 2019. Free for personal, private and non-commercial use. Have Fun! Get in touch with Have Fun with Font at fontfun@gmail.com
Font family
HFF Thai Dye
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
HaveFunwithFonts: HFF Thai Dye: 2019
Full font name
HFF Thai Dye
Name table version
2.019 | Free for personal, private and non-commercial use | fontfun@gmail.com
HFF Thai Dye is based on Siamese, from "Special-Effects and Topical Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts" by Dan X. Solo, first published by Dover Publications in 1978. Siamese is also featured in "The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces".
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2019-03-09
Revision2
Glyph count125
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for preview & printing allowed
Family classNo classification
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals