“Type Network is excited to partner with Canva,” announced Jo Malinis, TN’s director of communications.
“We’re bringing a selection of our independent foundries’ fonts to the platform used by millions of people around the world, from students and educators to small businesses, professional designers, and creative teams. The fonts are available to every Canva user, on free and Pro accounts alike.”
Giving Southeast Asian scripts more visibility
Canva is an online design and publishing tool used to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more. They are continuing to grow their presence across Southeast Asia, making multilingual typefaces increasingly important for their users.
“Language is such an important part of how people express their identity and creativity, and in Southeast Asia that means designing across an incredible range of scripts and cultures. By bringing more of these typefaces to Canva, we’re empowering our community to create in the languages they use every day, in a way that feels authentically their own," said Sophie Turner, Southeast Asia Content Lead at Canva.
This partnership is a chance to give people the tools to communicate across languages while maintaining a coherent visual voice. “With these families, designers can move between Thai and Latin, for instance, without losing the character of the design,” said Jo.
The typefaces in this collection take different approaches to that challenge, from families built specifically for Southeast Asian scripts to typefaces that bring multiple writing systems together under one typographic voice.
What’s included in the first round
From foundry partners across our network:
Cadson Demak
Ten families built for Thai-first design that holds up in Latin and Vietnamese too, from the display weight of Klom to the utilitarian clarity of Sukhumvit Dot.
Cadson Demak is a high-profile foundry and typographic consultancy in Thailand.
CakeType
A small, distinct set of Vietnamese-friendly display faces, from the geometric Cake Sans to the more idiosyncratic Oigle and Whale.
CakeType was founded in 2004 as a boutique foundry, distributing Pieter van Rosmalen’s early—somewhat idiosyncratic—typefaces.
Comicraft
Expressive, hand-built display and lettering styles, from the comic-inspired Biff Bam Boom and Fontropolis to bold, characterful faces designed to make a statement.
Comicraft fonts have been used to letter thousands of comic books, cartoons & graphic novels, from The Avengers to The Uncanny X-Men! Accept no substitutes, true believer!
Typefaces included
CSTM Fonts
Two structured type systems, Guild A and Guild B, each spanning text, display, and banner weights for Latin and Vietnamese.
Award-winning designers Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky founded CSTM Fonts, an independent digital type design and development foundry, in 2014.
DJR
A wide-ranging collection spanning display, text, and script-specific design, including Forma DJR Thai Deck for Thai-language work alongside Vietnamese and Latin.
David Jonathan Ross draws letters of all shapes and sizes for custom and retail typeface designs.
MTM
Bold, high-contrast display type, led by the Rotulo family across five widths and the condensed Xunga series, all built for Latin and Vietnamese.
MTM is a type foundry dedicated to capturing the impact of letters in our visual culture, from Renaissance text faces to signpainting.
Positype
The deepest Southeast Asian script coverage in this collection, with Thai, Khmer, and Lao versions across the Aux Pro, Clear Pro, Foundation, and Human families.
Positype is an independent type foundry by Neil Summerour, home to 210+ typeface families across Latin, Arabic, Khmer, Thai, Cyrillic, Greek, and more.
Typefaces included
- Aux Pro Thai
- Aux Pro Compressed Thai
- Aux Pro Condensed Thai
- Aux Pro Wide Thai
- Clear Pro Thai
- Clear Pro Khmer
- Clear Pro Lao
- Foundation Thai
- Foundation Khmer
- Foundation Lao
- Human Thai
- Human Khmer
- Human Lao
Swell Type
Expressive display styles from Bearhug, Hyperspace Race XTall, and the Paradise Point family, all extended for Vietnamese.
Fun, friendly, functional fonts inspired by the real-world signs and scenery of California.
Tokotype
The largest single collection here, seventeen families ranging from the grotesque Sinar Grotesk and Aksen to the serif Leksikal Serif, all supporting Vietnamese alongside Latin.
Tokotype is a leading Indonesian type foundry, crafting custom and commercial fonts to elevate brands.
Type-Ø-Tones
DINosaur Sharp, a sharp-edged display face extended across Latin, Arabic, and Vietnamese.
Type-Ø-Tones is a typographic design company founded in 1990 by Joan Barjau, Enric Jardí, Laura Meseguer and José Manuel Urós.
Typefaces included
TypeTogether
Eleven families spanning editorial text faces and display type, with Arlette Thai, Portada Thai, and Portada Text Thai bringing Thai-language support into the mix.
TypeTogether creates innovative and stylish solutions to the greatest problems in the professional typography market worldwide.
Universal Thirst
The Meursault family in three widths, a condensed, ultra-condensed, and standard cut built for Latin and Vietnamese.
Universal Thirst is a type foundry that specializes in Indic and Latin scripts.
Typefaces included
The fonts are searchable in Canva’s font library, ready to use across templates, brand kits, and text objects, at no extra cost.
“Type Network is continuing to explore opportunities to bring more TN typefaces to Canva,” Jo said. “We’re delighted to give Canva users access to the very best fonts—from the very best type designers.”
Type Network wants great fonts available wherever people create.
If you’re building a platform and want to bring more top typefaces to your users, get in touch. You can reach our Director of Business Development, Jesse Gage, at
jesse@typenetwork.com