In the sections below, we will explain how to download and install font files on your or computer and how to use them on. Here is what Garuda looks like at one particular font size: The font files are in the TrueType format that works on Windows XP (and beyond) and MacOS 10 computers. Sure, eventually, you'll need to be able to read many different Thai writing styles, but for someone who's just learning the Thai alphabet, they are an unnecessary impediment to progress! There is a very easy-to-read, familiar, free, public-domain Thai font called Garuda which you can download to your computer from this webpage and use to read. The Thai fonts that come with Windows and MacOS are pretty hard to read, and differ a lot from typical Thai book fonts. They contain a bunch of.ttf files (the fonts) along with a file named INSTALL that you can ignore (it applies to linux). These packages are in.tar.gz format, which is Unix's version of the popular.zip format. Be sure that you pick the latest version, and be sure that you download the precompiled fonts (whose filenames generally begin with thai-ttf rather than thaifonts-scalable). You can see and you can to download the complete set. As of January 2008, this set of fonts, already excellent, is still under active development and improvement (and they're not just for Linux).
I have never found a font as clean and readable as Garuda, not even amongst the commercial set, but here are some other cool sources for fonts: The Garuda font is actually distributed in a package called that includes a set of other free fonts such as Kinnari, Loma, Norasi, Purisa, Sawasdee, TlwgMono, TlwgTypewriter, TlwgTypist, Umpush, and Waree. As part of the Thai, placed into the public domain by some very nice people at, and further modified under the by some equally nice people at the (but the fonts work on Windows and Mac, too).
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