The Design Note: Meldr™ Thai

Meldr™ Thai is a hybrid typeface that blends Sans-serif and Slab-serif elements. It features 780 glyphs and comes in styles ranging from Thin to Black, supporting 148 languages across multiple regions. Ideal for headlines, type play, and mid-sized text, it also excels as a wordmark, enhancing brand identity with a strong and distinctive presence.

A Typeface with Quiet Strength

Meldr™ Thai combines the best of Sans-serif and Slab-serif characteristics, making it versatile for both large-scale headlines and type play as well as mid-sized reading text. With its clean yet impactful design, this typeface is perfect for applications requiring clarity and distinction.

With its well-balanced proportions, Meldr™ Thai allows for efficient space usage, making it ideal for content-heavy designs. Additionally, when used as a wordmark or brand name, it delivers a unique and recognizable character that reinforces brand identity.

Design Details

Meldr™ Thai is designed with web usage in mind, featuring balanced line spacing to eliminate the need for additional space adjustments when applied in UI design. This setting ensures seamless synchronisation between design software and front-end UI development through precise coding implementations.

The typeface also minimises Bounding Box issues, particularly when displaying Thai script, which requires accurate diacritic positioning. Users can fine-tune Line-height or Leading for optimal rendering if the default line spacing appears excessive.

Meldr™ Thai includes 780 glyphs and offers a wide range of styles from Thin to Black, making it adaptable to various design needs—whether requiring minimal elegance or bold visual impact.

A distinctive feature of Meldr™ Thai is its customized stroke endings in certain characters, such as "a," "i," "y," "d," and "b," setting it apart from conventional Sans-serif typefaces. This unique fusion of structured strength and refined details makes it a category-defining font.

The Meaning Behind Meldr™

Meldr™ is part of Deltatype’s collection of fonts beginning with “M.” The name “Meld” is derived from the concept of blending and merging elements seamlessly, reflecting the philosophy behind this typeface’s design.

Supports 148 Languages Across Multiple Regions

Meldr™ Thai supports 148 languages, covering diverse linguistic groups worldwide:

Western and Central European: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Galician, Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Luxembourgish, Romansh, Frisian
Eastern European and Balkan: Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Hungarian, Romanian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
African Languages: Afrikaans, Swahili, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Ndebele, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Rundi, Kinyarwanda, Gusii
American and Caribbean Languages: Guarani, Muscogee, Quechua, Mohawk, Haitian Creole
Middle Eastern and Central Asian: Turkish, Kurdish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Kazakh, Turkmen
East and Southeast Asian: Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Filipino, Malay, Sundanese, Javanese, Balinese, Lao, Khmer
Pacific Island Languages: Hawaiian, Maori, Tongan, Samoan
Constructed and Special Languages: Esperanto, Interlingua, Volapük, Lojban, Latin